Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the late 19th century, settlers pushing into the American Midwest looked up from their newly planted fields to see a black ...

Sometimes, what seems like an impending disaster can become an afterthought in the blink of an eye. Surprisingly, it's often our unwitting actions that have the most profound impact on preventing ...

Anyone who has read the Laura Ingalls Wilder "Little House" books has been struck by the vision of the terrible grasshopper plagues of that time. These accounts are based in fact. Huge grasshopper ...

In the summer of 1873, black clouds drifted east from the foothills of the Rocky Mountains towards the newly settled farms of Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota and the Dakotas. The pioneer families had no ...

Mention locust to me and Pearl Buck's "The Good Earth" comes to mind, compliments of my elementary school board that deemed the movie version necessary viewing. Those locust swarms gave me nightmares, ...

Alias: Rocky Mountain locust. Grasshoppers can become migratory and swarm and are referred to as locusts. This insect was one of the gravest threats to early settlers in the region. It was medium ...

Despite this wet summer, cicadas have been singing in our back yard for several weeks now. Because there are not too many, I consider them benign and even find their strident buzzing quite pleasing.

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