THE GRASSHOPPER PLAGUE. Share full article. July 10, 1874. ... The farmers of Minnesota, it now appears, have been suffering from the ravages of the grasshoppers as badly as the farmers of Iowa.

Huge grasshopper plagues once filled the skies across the Great Plains every decade or two, descending to devour the grain crops of early European immigrants in the 1870s.

Anyone who has read the Laura Ingalls Wilder or Rose Wilder Lane stories of life on the prairies in the 1870s and 1880s has been struck by the vision of the terrible grasshopper plagues of that time.

A punishing drought in the U.S. West is drying up waterways, sparking wildfires and leaving farmers scrambling for water. Next up: a plague of voracious grasshoppers.

Grasshopper infestations this year probably will be twice as bad as in 2009 throughout much of Wyoming, the local manager of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management said Tuesday.

Fires, floods, drought, blizzards, avalanches — life in the West can be rather challenging. And now a plague of locusts. Well, not exactly. Just plain old grasshoppers, whose population has been ...

A punishing drought in the U.S. West is drying up waterways, sparking wildfires and leaving farmers scrambling for water. Next up: a plague of voracious grasshoppers. Federal agriculture officials ...

To find out, I called population ecologist Gary Belovsky, who’s been studying grasshoppers in western Montana for 37 years. He’s currently researching how climate change affects grasshopper ...

Author Elizabeth Borders discussed the grasshopper plague that devastated the parts of the Midwest from 1874-1876. Global Search Search In. Quick Guide. Search. Schedule ...

VALE — If the drought wasn’t bad enough by itself, it is bringing a plague of grasshoppers to ranches in the southern part of Malheur County, stripping whatever grass and other green ...

The Grasshopper Plague. Share full article. Aug. 17, 1857. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from August 17, 1857, Page 5 Buy Reprints.

Grasshoppers thrive in warm, dry weather, and populations already were up last year, setting the stage for an even bigger outbreak in 2021. Such outbreaks could become more common as climate ...