. The Popular science monthly . Fig. 5. Pellucid Locust or Grass-hopper (Camnula pellucida), Male. Fig. 6. The Red-legged Locust orGrasshopper (M. femur-rubum).. Fig. 7. The Short-winged Locust or Grasshopper (Stenobothrus curtipcnnis), Male. MODERN WARFARE AGAINST GRASSHOPPERS 467 those endeavoring to raise crops in districts where there are hundredsof acres of virgin land untouched by the plow, or large tracts ofreverted land, land which though once cropped has been allowedto revert to natural conditions, may well look with apprehension uponthe accumulating hordes of what they used to regard
. The Popular science monthly . Fig. 5. Pellucid Locust or Grass-hopper (Camnula pellucida), Male. Fig. 6. The Red-legged Locust orGrasshopper (M. femur-rubum).. Fig. 7. The Short-winged Locust or Grasshopper (Stenobothrus curtipcnnis), Male. MODERN WARFARE AGAINST GRASSHOPPERS 467 those endeavoring to raise crops in districts where there are hundredsof acres of virgin land untouched by the plow, or large tracts ofreverted land, land which though once cropped has been allowedto revert to natural conditions, may well look with apprehension uponthe accumulating hordes of what they used to regard as harmlessgrasshoppers in contradistinction to the much-dreaded Eocky Mountainlocust. It is such localities that offer ideal conditions for the increaseof this insect. Evidently, therefore, farmers living on the frontier ofagricultural areas next to new or reverted land, the pioneer farmers, asit were, are the ones to suffer most heavily. Given such localities anddry weather, the absence of heavy, killing rains, when the young hopperis just out of the egg for a succession of seasons, and the agriculturistsees acres of wheat, oats, rye, barley and flax r
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