Insect pests of farm, garden and orchard . ellucida Scud.) has been largely responsible for the losses occa-sioned by locusts in California, and has also been found in NewEngland, but is not noted there as specially destructive. Our largest winged Amer-ican locust, the AmericanAcridium (Schistocerca ameri-cana Scud.), is practicallyconfined to the SouthernStates from the District ofColumbia to Texas, and thencesouth through Mexico amiCentral America, being rarelyfound in the North. Thisspecies is essentially a tropicalone, and has often been ex-ceedingly destructive, beingespecially so in 1876
Insect pests of farm, garden and orchard . ellucida Scud.) has been largely responsible for the losses occa-sioned by locusts in California, and has also been found in NewEngland, but is not noted there as specially destructive. Our largest winged Amer-ican locust, the AmericanAcridium (Schistocerca ameri-cana Scud.), is practicallyconfined to the SouthernStates from the District ofColumbia to Texas, and thencesouth through Mexico amiCentral America, being rarelyfound in the North. Thisspecies is essentially a tropicalone, and has often been ex-ceedingly destructive, beingespecially so in 1876 inMissouri, Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia, and southern larger than the preceding species are the Dif-ferential Locust (Melanoplus differentialis Thos.) and the Locust (Melanoplus bivittatus Scud.), of which the formeris peculiar to the central States of the Mississippi Valley, Texas,New Mexico, and California, while the latter has a more extendedrange from Maine to Utah and as far south as Carolina and. Fig. 66.—The pellucid locust {Camnulapellucida Scud.). (After Emerton,) 100 INSECT PESTS OF FARM, GARDEN AND ORCHARD Texas. These two differ from the smalk!r species in layingonly one or two masses of eggs, and the eggs of differentialis
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