The farmers of Minnesota, it now appears, have been suffering from the ravages of the grasshoppers as badly as the farmers of Iowa. View Full Article in Timesmachine » ...

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.

Description Author Elizabeth Borders discussed the grasshopper plague that devastated the parts of the Midwest from 1874-1876.

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.

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 ...

Weather Talk: Grasshopper plagues are gone with the wind 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 ...

0 0 This article was originally published with the title “The Plague of Grasshoppers” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 10 No. 50 (August 1855), p. 398 doi:10.1038 ...

Strangely, the Rocky Mountain Locust, the grasshopper species responsible for the plague, returned in greatly reduced number in the 1890s and have since disappeared entirely.

ACCOBDING to a Wire Report of Science Service, Washington, D.C., dated June 9, grasshoppers are likely to be a more serious plague in the north western United States, to so far south as Arizona ...

PAUL, Minn., June 30.--Grasshoppers have recently appeared by the million in this vicinity and seriously threaten the total annihilation of crops. A vigorous warfare is being waged against them.

Author Elizabeth Borders discussed the grasshopper plague that devastated the parts of the Midwest from 1874-1876.