Photograph by American Colonj 

 A FORERUNNER OF FAMINE: LOCUSTS IN THE LARVA STAGE 



Jerusalem 



The armies of men are not the only legions which spread desolation over fertile fields. 

 There is no more dreaded precursor of famine than the locust, whose hosts destroy every 

 grain of wheat and blade of grass growing in their path. Since the days of the Seven 

 Plagues of Egypt this insect has been a synonym for crop failure and consequent famine. 



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