The First Insect Apocalypse
The Locust Plague in the United States: Being More Particularly a Treatise on the Rocky Mountain Locust or So-called Grasshopper, As It Occurs East of the Rocky Mountains, with Practical Recommendations for Its Destruction
First Edition. The extinction of the Rocky Mountain Locust through human action was an act of ecological destruction even greater than the better-known extinction of the passenger pigeon. In 1875, a swarm estimated at 12.5 trillion (!) insects spread over much of the Midwest and intruded into central Canada, devouring.....
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