APPENDIX XVII. — HABITS OF THE LOCUST AT NIGHT. [209] 



Ctcai' Laic, Sherdurne Conniy.— They roost on the fences and trees; do not think they 

 eat dnriuj; the night. — [Frye. 



Alcleu, Freeborn County: — Ecmain on the ground unless disturbed. Eat on what they 

 ligbt on, — [Cross. 



Worihlngton, Xohles County. — The young at night, when warm and pleasant weather, 

 climb up ou grass, weeds, hay, stubble, or straw ; but if cold or wet they crawl in the 

 ground, under clods, or in cracks or holes. The winged locusts mostly alight at night, 

 but sometimes fly all night with a favorable wind. — [McDowell. 



Heron Lake, Jackson County. — After they are one-half grown they will swarm upon 

 fences and buildings as bees will hang on the outside of the hive ; or where they cannot 

 find such places they will climb ui)on the tallest weeds or grain and appear sleepy ; and 

 I do not think they eat any during the night. — [Edwards. 



Watah, Benton County. — The old ones climb up ou bushes or the sides of buildings 

 when they are handy ; if not handy they sit on the ground and eat ; the young ones 

 do the same. — [Oilman. 



Cosmos, Meeker County. — I think they never march or fly except they are already on 

 the wing. Do not think the young ones eat at night ; gather on stalks, &c. — [J. N. 

 McDonald. 



Saint Peter, Nicollet County. — They rest on the bare ground, fences, bushes, or tall 

 weeds. — [Arnold. 



Holmes City, Douglas County. — Eat all night if they are on anything they like ; never 

 march. — [Blackwell. 



(rlemeood, Pope County. — Eoost on stalks, &c. ; if cold, seek shelter low. — [Campbell. 



Luverne, Pock County. — Old ones remain quiet. I have often been to the grain-field, 

 between sundown and dark, and could hear the 'hoppers dropping from the grain to 

 the ground ; they make a noise like a heavy shower of rain. — [H. Brockway. 



Xoru-ood, Carver County. — Remain during the night. — [Tiffany. 



Mapleton, Blue Earth County. — Remain on fences; don't fly, &c. — [Williams. 



Sibley, Sibley County. — Young climb on the grass or seek some sheltered spot, &c. I 

 have seen long grass in the meadows at sunset look as black as hazel brush, fairly 

 loaded down with young 'hoppers. — [Woodbury. 



Blue Earth City, Faribault County. — Climb upon grass, weeds, &c. Seem to feed 

 freely before leaving. — [Bonwell. 



Leenthrop, Cliippewa County. — They eat.— [Eollerson. 



Orr, Jackson County. — The young always seek some place for cover during the night. 

 Never knew them to travel or eat during the night. Never knew grown insects to fly 

 during the night, b:;t think they usually eat at night. — [Palmer. 



Collins, McLeocl County. — Toward night they climb on fences, grain, weeds ; in fact 

 anything in their reach. They feed mostly after 5 p. m. ; sometimes all night, and 

 quite early in the morning. — [Canfield. 



West Xewton, Nicollet County. — They climb up on the straws and on the small trees, 

 and, as I have heard, they do eat.— [Kyllander. 



Marshall, Lyon County. — If they fly nights no one knows it. If they go to roost they 

 are in the same spot next morning, and do not move till the dew is all oft". — [Weymouth. 



Saint Cloud, Stearns County. — When very young and nights rather cool they crawl 

 under small lumps of dirt, or old grass, or leaves, or bits of chips, &c. As they get 

 elder they select ihe warmest bare ground, or old straw, leaves, &c., but do not burrow 

 under ; then afterward they select bushes, tall grass, wheat, or grain of any kind, or 

 in fact almost any vegetable that will keep them from the ground, crawl on the fences, 

 old boards, logs, &c. This more markedly when heavy dews prevail. I believe the 

 young and the old sometimes eat in the night, when there is no dew and the night 

 jjroves warm ; do not think they fly or march much after night. — [J. I. Salter. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



I have never known them to fly after sundown, nor to march after that time. They 

 generally gather on grass, grain, or bushes in the evening, and remain inactive during 

 the night. The eggs are generally deposited in patches, and, after hatching, the 'hop- 

 pers move together in some direction, east, west, north, or south, eating as they go, 

 until they meet with some obstacle, water, or trench, when they will stop for days, 

 finally turning and moving off at right-angles from their former course. I have known 

 a batch in one field to be moving north, while a batch in a neighboring field would be 

 going south. When they get wings, so that they can fly, they will leave grain or gar- 

 den with the first favorable wind. They never move in flights without a fair wind, 

 and I have seen but one flight going west in the past ten years.— [E. N. Garbutt, La 

 Porte, Larimer County, Colorado. 



The crops which have suffered most in this section are wheat and barley; those that 

 have suffered least are corn and oats ; that is, from the young 'hoppers of this season. 

 The prevailing direction of travel has been south. I have never known them to con- 

 tinue their flight at night. I have not known of their coming or leaving in the night, 

 which they probably would have done, did they continue their flights after dark, for 

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