6 Farmers’ Bulletin 1140. 
The foul grasshopper? is large and grayish, measuring about 14 
inches in length, with dark wing markings. It breeds abundantly 
on dry hillsides and attacks almond orchards along the foothills. 
The red-legged grasshopper? is a brownish species, measuring 
about three-fourths of an inch in length. It breeds on waste areas 
and attacks alfalfa, beans, and corn. It is most abundant in the 
higher mountain valleys. 
Tic, 38.—The lesser migratory grasshopper. 
COMMUNITY ACTION. 
Grasshoppers frequently develop in great abundance on the un- 
cultivated lands, where they can do comparatively little harm, and 
migrate into irrigated districts, where they feed upon valuable crops 
on intensively cultivated areas. The ranges, foothills, grassy 
meadows, and uncultivated alfalfa fields are favorite breeding places 
from which grasshoppers frequently migrate. Such migrations are 
1 Dissosteira spurcata Sauss. 2 Melanoplus femur-rubrum DeGeer. 
