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The Rocky Mountain Locust in Texas

The Rocky Mountain Locust in Texas Female locusts depositing eggs. Illustration from "The Rocky Mountain locust, or grasshopper of the West," in Report ofthe Commissioner ofAgriculturefor theyear i8yy (Washington, D.C: Government Printing Office, 1877), plate 1, figure 1 (after Riley). By Stanley D. Casto* Listen all who live in the land. Has anything like this ever happened in your day or in the days of your forefathers? (Joel 1:2) The first Texans to experience the ravages of the Rocky Mountain locust (Melanoplus spretus) must certainly have recalled the question asked by the prophetJoel during the locust plague in ancient Israel. Has anything like this ever happened in your day or in the days of your forefathers? From where did this pestiferous insect come? Could its sudden appearance in such enormous numbers be rationally explained or was it sent, as suggested byJoel, as a reminder that the day of the Lord was near? And of immediate concern, how might the gardens, orchards, and crops be protected from this insatiable destroyer of plant life? These questions would eventually be answered but not before the citizens of Texas had endured a number of devastating visitations. The Rocky Mountain locust was a migratory grasshopper, now presumed extinct, that http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southwestern Historical Quarterly Texas State Historical Association

The Rocky Mountain Locust in Texas

Southwestern Historical Quarterly , Volume 111 (2) – Jul 6, 2007

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Texas State Historical Association
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Abstract

Female locusts depositing eggs. Illustration from "The Rocky Mountain locust, or grasshopper of the West," in Report ofthe Commissioner ofAgriculturefor theyear i8yy (Washington, D.C: Government Printing Office, 1877), plate 1, figure 1 (after Riley). By Stanley D. Casto* Listen all who live in the land. Has anything like this ever happened in your day or in the days of your forefathers? (Joel 1:2) The first Texans to experience the ravages of the Rocky Mountain locust (Melanoplus spretus) must certainly have recalled the question asked by the prophetJoel during the locust plague in ancient Israel. Has anything like this ever happened in your day or in the days of your forefathers? From where did this pestiferous insect come? Could its sudden appearance in such enormous numbers be rationally explained or was it sent, as suggested byJoel, as a reminder that the day of the Lord was near? And of immediate concern, how might the gardens, orchards, and crops be protected from this insatiable destroyer of plant life? These questions would eventually be answered but not before the citizens of Texas had endured a number of devastating visitations. The Rocky Mountain locust was a migratory grasshopper, now presumed extinct, that

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Published: Jul 6, 2007

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