Author: Geological Survey (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Locusts
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description
Report of the United States Entomological Commission Relating to the Rocky Mountain Locust, the Western Cricket, Etc
Author: United States. Division of EntomologyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
First and Annual Report of the United States Entomological Commission for the Year 1877 Relating to the Rocky Mountain Locust and the Best Methods of Preventing Its Injuries and of Guarding Against Its Invasions
Author: Geological Survey (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Locusts
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description
Third Report of the United States Entomological Commission Relating to the Rocky Mountain Locust, the Western Cricket, the Army Worm, Canker Worms and the Hessian Fly ...
Author: United States Entomological CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anabrus simplex
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Third Report ... Relating to the Rocky Mountain Locust, the Western Cricket, the Army Worm, Canker Worms, and the Hessian Fly
Author: United States Entomological CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Armyworms
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Annual report of the United States Entomological Commission relating to the Rocky Mountain Locust
Author: Report of the United States Entomological Commission for the Years ...
Author: United States Entomological CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Beneficial insects
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Each vol. relates to different injurious insects (i.e., 2nd, Rocky Mountain locust, and the western cricket; 3rd, Rocky Mountain locust, the western cricket, the army worm, canker worms, and the Hessian fly).
Locust
Author: Jeffrey A. LockwoodPublisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0786738871
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Throughout the nineteenth century, swarms of locusts regularly swept across the continent, turning noon into dusk, demolishing farm communities, and bringing trains to a halt as the crushed bodies of insects greased the rails. In 1876, the U.S. Congress declared the locust "the single greatest impediment to the settlement of the country." From the Dakotas to Texas, from California to Iowa, the swarms pushed thousands of settlers to the brink of starvation, prompting the federal government to enlist some of the greatest scientific minds of the day and thereby jumpstarting the fledgling science of entomology. Over the next few decades, the Rocky Mountain locust suddenly -- and mysteriously -- vanished. A century later, Jeffrey Lockwood set out to discover why. Unconvinced by the reigning theories, he searched for new evidence in musty books, crumbling maps, and crevassed glaciers, eventually piecing together the elusive answer: A group of early settlers unwittingly destroyed the locust's sanctuaries just as the insect was experiencing a natural population crash. Drawing on historical accounts and modern science, Locust brings to life the cultural, economic, and political forces at work in America in the late-nineteenth century, even as it solves one of the greatest ecological mysteries of our time.
First Annual Report of the United States Entomological Commission for the Year 1877 Relating to the Rocky Mountain Locust and the Best Methods of Preventing Its Injuries and of Guarding Against Its Invasions, in Pursuance of an Appropriation Made by Congress for this Purpose
Author: Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture for the Year ...
Author: United States. Department of AgriculturePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture
Author: Commissioner of AgriculturePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description