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Ribcs sanguineum 2 



' ' speciosum '2 



Rocky Mountain Locust 57 



Additional Natural Enemies !•! 



Anthomyia Egg Parasite 92 



Area in which Eggs were laid 116 



Condition of the Eggs 116 



Destination of the departing Swarms of 



1875 77 



Direction of Flight 81 



Does the Female lay more than one Egg- 

 mass? 85 



Eastern Line reached 80 



Experiments with the Eggs and conclusions 



drawn therefrom 99, lOG 



How the Eggs are laid 86 



How the young Locust escajjes from the 



Ege: 88 



Influence of Freezing and Thawing on the 



Eggs 99 



Influence of Moisture on the Eggs 101 



' ' of Exposure to Air ou the Eggs.. 104 

 ' ' of Burying the Eggs at difl'erent 



Depths 104 



' ' of Wind in determining the course 



o f Locust Swarms 81 



Invasion of 1876 59 



Kansas Acts to encourage the Destruction 



of Locusts 11-2, ll.S 



Legislation Ill 



Locust Flights East of the Mississippi 81 



Minnesota Act for the Destruction of Lo- 

 custs 113 



Missouri Act to encourage the Destruction • 



of Locusts Ill 



Philosophy of the Egg-mass 87 



Prospects in 1877 121 



Kate at which the Insects spread 80 



Remedies and Sugestions. 108 



Source of the Swarms of 1876 79 



'The Omaha Conference 106 



Temperature of the Winter of 1876-7 120 



Undetermined Enemies ot the Eggs 96 



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Sarcophaga carnaria O.*) 



Selandria rosce 19 



Silky Mite 91 



Source of Locust Swarms of 1876 ■ '79 



Spread of the Colorado Potato-beetle 34 



Stenopogon consanguineus 98 



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Strawberry Worm, The 27 



Descriptive 28 



Remedies 28-; 



Summarv of Natural History of the Army 



VVorm 49 



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Table of Contents v 



Tachina anomjma 54 



Temperature of Winter of 1876-7 120 



Tcnebrio obscurus 43 



" molitor 43 



Termes flavipcs 43 



Texas — Locusts in 76 



Tigei'-beetles preying on Locusts 98 



Tolmerus 98 



Trombidium sericeum 91 



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Undetermined Enemies of Locust Eggs 9t5 



Uropoda Americana 41 



' ' vegetans 40 



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Wheat-Head Army Worm 50 



Descriptive .55 



Habits and Natuial History bi 



Natural Enemies 54 



Remedies 55 



Wherein the Native Currant AVorm diflers from 



the Imported Species 23 



White Pine Worm, Abbot's 29 



' ' Hellebore— How to use for Currant 



Worms 14 



Wind, Influence of in determining the course 



of Locust Swarms 81 



Wyoming— Locusts in 59 



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Xijela 20 



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Yucca Borer 129 



It is single-brooded 129 



It thrives in the Latitude of St. Louis 129~ 



