Annual Report of the United States Entomological Commission for the Year ..., Volum 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1878 |
Vanlige uttrykk og setninger
abdomen abundant appeared April atlanis August birds breeding Brookings County Caloptenus City Colorado considerable numbers corn County.-A County.-Fly northwest County.-Fly southeast County.-Go County.-Wind northwest crops Dakota County Dakota.-Wind damage deposited destroyed destruction Deuel County direction Dixon County early east eastern eggs elytra fall farmers femur-rubrum fields flew flight fly southeast Fort Benton grain grass grasshoppers ground Hanson County hoppers immense numbers inches injury insects Iowa July June Kansas Lac-qui-Parle laid Lake Lancaster County large numbers larva larvæ Lincoln locusts hatched March migrations miles Minnesota Missouri Nebraska northeast oats observed parasites passed plowed portion posterior prairie pronotum pupa rains ravages region Renville Richardson County Riley River Rocky Mountain locust Saint sandy Sarpy County season seen September soil southwest species specimens spretus spring stomach temperature Texas thick Valley visited warm weather western wheat wings young locusts
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Side 214 - A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth : the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness ; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
Side 214 - Lord cometh, for it is nigh at hand ; a day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.
Side 466 - And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron: and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.
Side 215 - They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief.
Side 214 - Onward they came, a dark continuous cloud Of congregated myriads numberless, The rushing of whose wings was as the sound Of a broad river, headlong in its course Plunged from a mountain summit; or the roar Of a wild ocean in the autumn storm, Shattering its billows on a shore of rocks.
Side 214 - Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness. They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks...
Side 222 - ... being disturbed. Thus a well-traveled road may present the appearance of being perfectly honey-combed with holes, when an examination will show that most of them are unfinished and contain no eggs; whereas a field covered with grass-stubble may show no signs of such holes and yet abound with eggs.
Side 413 - The general assembly may, whenever they shall deem it necessary, cause to be collected from all able-bodied free white male inhabitants of this State, over the age of twenty-one years and under the age of sixty years...
Side 230 - ... (d). While crowding its way out the antennae and four front legs are held in much the same position as within the egg, the hind legs being generally stretched. But the members bend in every conceivable way, and where several are endeavoring to work through any particular passage, the amount of squeezing and crowding they will endure is something remarkable. Yet if by chance the protecting pellicle is worked off before issuing from the ground, the animal loses all power of further forcing its...
Side 282 - As soon as the skin is split, the soft and white fore-body and head swell and gradually extrude more and more by a series of muscular contortions ; the new head slowly emerges from the old skin, which, with its empty eyes, is worked back beneath, and the new feelers and legs are being drawn from their casings and the future wings from their sheaths.