INSECT INTRUDERS. 



flights of this locust choosing the per- 

 manent way as a convenient resting place : 

 the numbers of the killed and dying in- 

 sects, crushed during the passage of the 

 train, rendering the rails so slippery as to 

 no longer afford a hold for the wheels ? 

 Do not whole communities turn out and 

 fight shoulder to shoulder to keep the 

 invasion from their fields and have not 

 all attempts proved so often useless. 

 Unchecked and uncontrolled, because so 

 often in the past so completely misunder- 

 stood, the invading hosts have passed on, 

 after clearing every green thing from 

 the face of the country, leaving in their 

 wake famine as dire as a succession of 

 droughts. Or, worse still, the females 

 before disappearing have deposited in 

 small holes in soft, sandy spots elongate 

 masses of eggs stuck together with some 

 siccable substance and having the ap- 

 pearance shown in the picture here. 



Areas in which these egg masses have 

 been deposited look for all the world as 

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