Download or read book Locust written by Jeffrey A. Lockwood and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2009-04-28 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Report on the Rocky Mountain Locust and Other Insects Now Injuring Or Likely to Injure Field and Garden Crops in the Western States and Territories written by Alpheus Spring Packard and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book On the Banks of Plum Creek written by Laura Ingalls Wilder and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2006-12-21 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laura and her family move to Minnesota where they live in a dugout until a new house is built and face misfortunes caused by flood, blizzard, and grasshoppers.
Download or read book Report on the Rocky Mountain Locust and Other Insects written by A. S. Packard and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-04 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Report on the Rocky Mountain Locust and Other Insects: Now Injuring or Likely to Injure Field and Garden Crops in the Western States and Territories The canons of the mountains (a very prevalent idea in the East) produce but very few grasshoppers - probably not 5 per cent; the higher canons none that ex er leave them. I suppose that the swarms that devastated Nebraska and Kansas in 1874 were na fives of the plains of the Upper Missouri branches, the Yellowstone, Powder River. And the North Platte - that great plateau-land lying between the Black Hills and Rocky Mountain chains in Montana and Northern Wyoming. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Report of the United States Entomological Commission for the Years written by United States Entomological Commission and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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).
Download or read book Report on the Rocky Mountain Locust and Other Insects Now Injuring Or Likely to Injure Field and Garden Crops in the Western States and Territories written by A S (Alpheus Spring) 1839 Packard and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Reports of Observations in 1880 and 1881 on the Rocky Mountain Locust in the Northwest written by Lawrence Bruner and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Preliminary Report of the United States Geological Survey of Montana and Portions of Adjacent Territories written by Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 1020 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rocky Mountain Locust written by M. I. Lastman and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2014-10-27 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Environmental Novel Elderly Jim Easom finds himself alone, having inexplicably survived a devastating pandemic. He sets out on an odyssey across the continent from his home in now-deserted Southern Ontario hoping to reach the Northwest Territories, to find other survivors, and to build a new home. He adopts just two: a sheltie puppy, and a thirteen-year-old girl. They, like him, have suffered much, with more sorrow to come. Together they make their way, trying to adapt to the shattering new world reality. Their story provides the framework for a critical analysis of the man-made crisis of the biosphere.
Download or read book First Annual Report on the Injurious and Other Insects of the State of New York written by J. A. Lintner and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-10 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Download or read book Ninth Annual Report of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories Embracing Colorado and Parts of Adjacent Territories written by Hayden (Ferdinand Vandeveer) and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 1020 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Field Guide to Common Western Grasshoppers written by Robert E. Pfadt and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Entomological Bulletins written by United States. Division of Entomology and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Edible Insects written by Arnold van Huis and published by Bright Sparks. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edible insects have always been a part of human diets, but in some societies there remains a degree of disdain and disgust for their consumption. Although the majority of consumed insects are gathered in forest habitats, mass-rearing systems are being developed in many countries. Insects offer a significant opportunity to merge traditional knowledge and modern science to improve human food security worldwide. This publication describes the contribution of insects to food security and examines future prospects for raising insects at a commercial scale to improve food and feed production, diversify diets, and support livelihoods in both developing and developed countries. It shows the many traditional and potential new uses of insects for direct human consumption and the opportunities for and constraints to farming them for food and feed. It examines the body of research on issues such as insect nutrition and food safety, the use of insects as animal feed, and the processing and preservation of insects and their products. It highlights the need to develop a regulatory framework to govern the use of insects for food security. And it presents case studies and examples from around the world. Edible insects are a promising alternative to the conventional production of meat, either for direct human consumption or for indirect use as feedstock. To fully realise this potential, much work needs to be done by a wide range of stakeholders. This publication will boost awareness of the many valuable roles that insects play in sustaining nature and human life, and it will stimulate debate on the expansion of the use of insects as food and feed.
Download or read book The Infested Mind written by Jeffrey Lockwood and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-25 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The human reaction to insects is neither purely biological nor simply cultural. And no one reacts to insects with indifference. Insects frighten, disgust and fascinate us. Jeff Lockwood explores this phenomenon through evolutionary science, human history, and contemporary psychology, as well as a debilitating bout with entomophobia in his work as an entomologist. Exploring the nature of anxiety and phobia, Lockwood explores the lively debate about how much of our fear of insects can be attributed to ancestral predisposition for our own survival and how much is learned through individual experiences. Drawing on vivid case studies, Lockwood explains how insects have come to infest our minds in sometimes devastating ways and supersede even the most rational understanding of the benefits these creatures provide. No one can claim to be ambivalent in the face of wasps, cockroaches or maggots but our collective entomophobia is wreaking havoc on the natural world as we soak our food, homes and gardens in powerful insecticides. Lockwood dissects our common reactions, distinguishing between disgust and fear, and invites readers to consider their own emotional and physiological reactions to insects in a new framework that he's derived from cutting-edge biological, psychological, and social science.
Download or read book Report of the State Entomologist on Injurious and Other Insects of the State of New York written by New York (State) State Entomologist and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bulletin written by United States. Bureau of Entomology and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
