Hunger on the Wing. Gordon Grice.
by Grice, Gordon; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2004Article 34Science. Publisher: Discover, 2003ISSN: 1522-3264;.Subject(s): Entomology | Extinction (Biology) | Grasshoppers | Great Plains | Insect populations | Insects -- Anatomy | Insects -- Metamorphosis | Insects -- Migration | LocustsDDC classification: 050 Summary: "One summer in the Oklahoma panhandle the grasshoppers were everywhere. Every patch of weeds along the alley would erupt like a pan of popping corn if I set foot in it. When we drove the highway, we inadvertently slaughtered dozens." (DISCOVER) This article describes the devastation caused by the Rocky Mountain locust in the 19th century and compares it to the locusts of today [2003].| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Hunger on the Wing, July 2003; pp. 48-55.
"One summer in the Oklahoma panhandle the grasshoppers were everywhere. Every patch of weeds along the alley would erupt like a pan of popping corn if I set foot in it. When we drove the highway, we inadvertently slaughtered dozens." (DISCOVER) This article describes the devastation caused by the Rocky Mountain locust in the 19th century and compares it to the locusts of today [2003].
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