...This extraordinary circumstancewas accounted for by the Arabs, who said thatnot a locust would cross the river, till (sultanjeraad) the king of the locusts should precedeand direct the way...
Abd Salam Shabeeny 「An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa」
...Afterwards,whenever there was any public entertainmentgiven, locusts was a standing dish;and it is remarkable that the dish was alwaysemptied, so generally were they esteemed aspalatable food...
Abd Salam Shabeeny 「An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa」
... Swarms of locusts were alone in possession, and under the engine and carriages the earth was a dark brown moving mass, with the stream of these jumping, creeping things...
Lady Sarah Wilson 「South African Memories」
...Near Kasanganga's I saw boys shooting locusts that settledon the ground with little bows and arrows...
David Livingstone 「The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873」
...The boys shoot locusts with smalltoy guns very cleverly...
David Livingstone 「The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873」
...“They live upon roots at certain seasons of the year; upon locusts when a flight takes place; upon lizards, beetles—anything...
Captain Frederick Marryat 「The Mission; or Scenes in Africa」
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—These are attacked by locusts, grasshoppers, army worms, cut-worms, web worms, small grass worms and leaf hoppers...
William T. Hornaday 「Our Vanishing Wild Life」
...But still another element of safety has been introducedby some species of these locusts through the adoption ofthe color tactics of the Catocala moths...
Clarence M. Weed 「Butterflies Worth Knowing」
...The locusts and honey may have been served together, as the Bedas of Ceylon are said to season their meat with honey...
John Burroughs 「Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and, Other Papers」
...Thus do the Ammophilae go to work when dealing with their caterpillars and the Sphex-wasps when dealing with their Locusts, Ephippigers and Crickets...
J. Henri Fabre 「More Hunting Wasps」
...We should be courting a flat refusal if we offered a pinch of Locusts to the larvae of the Anthophora or the Osmia, for instance...
J. Henri Fabre 「More Hunting Wasps」
...The first of these spreads her large upright net, in which Locusts are caught, from one clump of brushwood to another...
J. Henri Fabre 「More Hunting Wasps」
...We call another insect a locust, but the shorthorned grasshoppers arethe true locusts...
Margaret Warner Morley 「The Insect Folk」
...It is the locusts, or shorthorned grasshoppers, that sometimes come inswarms that darken the sun...
Margaret Warner Morley 「The Insect Folk」
...He says we know the shorthorned grasshoppers, or locusts, thelonghorned, or meadow, grasshoppers, and the crickets...
Margaret Warner Morley 「The Insect Folk」
...No doubt you all have heard of the seventeen-year locusts...
Margaret Warner Morley 「The Insect Folk」
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