. The life of North American insects;. could be found, then theiryoung, and lastly the perfect insect. He states alsothat a similar law was enacted in Lemnos, by whichevery person was compelled to bring a certain mea-sure of Grasshoppers to the magistrates annually. In the year 591, an infinite army of Grasshoppers PlateV. STRAIGHT-WINGED INSECTS. 145 of a size unusually large, ravaged Italy, and being atlast cast into the sea, from their stench arose a pesti-lence which carried off about a million of men andbeasts. In the Venetian territory also, in 1478,more than thirty thousand persons are
. The life of North American insects;. could be found, then theiryoung, and lastly the perfect insect. He states alsothat a similar law was enacted in Lemnos, by whichevery person was compelled to bring a certain mea-sure of Grasshoppers to the magistrates annually. In the year 591, an infinite army of Grasshoppers PlateV. STRAIGHT-WINGED INSECTS. 145 of a size unusually large, ravaged Italy, and being atlast cast into the sea, from their stench arose a pesti-lence which carried off about a million of men andbeasts. In the Venetian territory also, in 1478,more than thirty thousand persons are said to haveperished in a famine occasioned by these terrificscourges. In 1650, a cloud of them was seen to en-ter Russia in three different places, from whence theypassed over into Poland and Lithuania, and whereverthey moved, the air was darkened by their some places they were observed lying dead, heapedone upon another to the depth of four feet, in othersthey covered the surface of the earth like a blackcloth, the trees bent from their weight, and the dam-age done by them exceeded all computation. Whenthe weather became hot they took wing and fell uponthe corn, devouring both leaf and ear, and that with suchexpedition that in three hours they would consume thewhole field. After having eaten up the cor
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