INJURIOUS INSECTS OF I909 AND IQIO. II 
With all due appreciation of the help given this division by 
the state press, perhaps no insect is used more than the grass- 
hopper, by ambitious young reporters, to make a good story with 
scare head-lines. What made it more aggravating in this instance 
was the continual confusing of the Seventeen-year Locust or “Har- 
vest Fly’”—which is a sucking insect and not a true locust or grass- 
hopper—and the grasshoppers or true locusts, which have been so 
unpleasantly prominent this year. To illustrate, we quote one or 
two absurd statements from county papers. The Tribune of Stew- 
art, Minn., under date of August 19, 1910, says: 
“But within the past week several farmers have seen the genuine red- 
legged, Seventeen-year, or Rocky Mountain locusts flying high in the air.” 
On January 19, Ig1o, the Standard, of Albert Lea, had some 
reference to a visitation of Seventeen-Year Locusts. The entomol- 
ogist, in a desire to straighten the matter out, sent a letter to the 
editor. Note how the editor treated it in his issue of February 2, 
IQIO: 
Figs. 6 and 7. Cicada or Harvest Fly, commonly called locust, and a 
true locust, commonly called “Grasshopper.” 
‘‘No Fear of Grasshoppers.’’ 
“The Standard is in receipt of the following letter, which ought to dispose 
of all predictions and guesses concerning the pest mentioned.” 
