. Natural history. For the use of schools and families. Zoology. STRAIGHT-WINGED INSECTS. 259. Fig. 20G.—Locust ly destructive of all insects. Some species are occasion- ally quite destructive in some parts of this country. But it is in Asia and Africa that they appear in such immense armies, leaving not a vestige of vegetation in their track, eating the corn and the grass down to the roots, and stripping the trees of their Mr. Gumming, in de- scribing the flight of an army of%hese insects, says, "I stood looking at them until the air was darkened with their masses, while the pla
. Natural history. For the use of schools and families. Zoology. STRAIGHT-WINGED INSECTS. 259. Fig. 20G.—Locust ly destructive of all insects. Some species are occasion- ally quite destructive in some parts of this country. But it is in Asia and Africa that they appear in such immense armies, leaving not a vestige of vegetation in their track, eating the corn and the grass down to the roots, and stripping the trees of their Mr. Gumming, in de- scribing the flight of an army of%hese insects, says, "I stood looking at them until the air was darkened with their masses, while the plain on which we stood became densely covered with them. Far as my eye could reach, east, west, north, and south, they stretched in one un- broken cloud, and more than an hour elapsed before their devastating legions had swept ; These insects some- times make incursions into Europe. One of these is de- scribed by Professor Jaeger, who was an eyewitness of it as he was traveling in Russia in 1825 across its desert prairies. The carriage-wheels moved through Locusts piled up to the height of two feet. This state of things existed over a wide extent of country. The insects were now wingless; but the inhabitants of the fertile regions north feared that, as soon as their wings were grown, they would come north and devour every green thing. Before this vast insect army could do this, the Emperor. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Hooker, Worthington, 1806-1867. New York, Harper & Brothers
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