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crew of

devising experiments for

and laboratory analysis of 1987

retrieved biomass

lessons learned from

paper regarding

physical trek

and protein analysis

and retrieving of grasshopper biomass

scientific reasons for

Grasshopper Glacier expedition of 1988

Grasshopper Glacier expedition of 1989

crew of

and paper on mandibles of grasshoppers (
spretus
)

Grasshopper invasions

first half of twentieth century

lack of publicity regarding

outbreak of 1998 and early twenty-first century

of in twentieth century compared to those of locusts of nineteenth century

Grazing.
See
Cattle grazing

Great Plains low-level jet

Great Salt Lake, and rotting locusts

Greenland

Ground, coming to, of locust swarm, reasons for and randomness of

Gurney, Ashley

and alfalfa

and extinction of bison and locust swarms

and favorable places of locusts within Permanent Zone

and insects at Grasshopper Glacier

and Rocky Mountain locust as separate species

and “weather theory” of decline of locust

Habitat destruction theory of extinction of Rocky Mountain locust

See also
Extinction of Rocky Mountain locust, habitat destruction theory

Haeckel, Ernst

Hardin, Charles

Hardships and Western settlers

Harrowing

Hawaii

Hayden, Ferdinand

Hayes, Rutherford B.

Hazen, William B.

Heaton, Isaac

Hebard, Morgan

Hemingway, Ernest

Henderson, William Williams

Heninger, Taylor

“Hero ‘Hopper-catcher”

Hitchcock, Phineas

Hohe, Christian

Homestead Act

Hopperdozers

Howard, Leland O

Howard, Leland Ossian

Hubbell, Theodore Huntington

Human Genome Project

Humor regarding grasshopper

Hurricanes

Hutus

Hyde, Arthur Mastick

Iceland

Illinois Natural History Survey

Imperial Bureau of Entomology

Industrialism vs. agrarianism

Insect collections

Insecticides

Insects and disease

“Integrated pest management” (IPM)

International Code of Zoological Nomenclature

International Congress of Entomology in St. Petersburg

Introduction to Entomology, An
(Kirby and Spence)

Introduction to the Study of North American Archaeology
(Thomas)

Invasion tactics of locusts

Irrigation

Islamic response to locusts

Italy

Ivie, John

Jefferson, Thomas

Johnson, Andrew

Jones, George

Jubilee years

Kaltern trial of locusts

Kansas

and conscription of locust fighters

and grasshopper swarms in twentieth century

and public assistance

Karamanli, Yusuf

Keeley, Lawrence H.

Kennedy, John F.

Kenter, August

Kenya Desert locust swarm of 1954

Kimball, Heber C.

King Suction-Machine

Kiowa Indians

Kirby, William

Klippart, John

Knife Point Glacier

and ice block given to Lockwood by Love

largest glacier in United States

Knife Point Glacier expeditions of 1989 and 1990

analyzing material from

and determining wax chemical fingerprints

and identification of Rocky Mountain locust

and mechanism by which locusts got trapped and deposited

and “mother lode” of Rocky Mountain locust remains

and predominance of female specimens

and quantities of Rocky Mountain locust remains washing out of glaciers

and stratification of glacier into bands and dating of historical swarms

Kuhn, Thomas

Lamarck, Jean-Baptist

Land Grant Colleges of Agriculture

Larson, Erik

LeDuc, William

Legumes

Lemnos and locust tax

Lenin, Vladimir

Leopold, Aldo

Lessons from extinction of Rocky Mountain locust

Leviticus

Liberal League

Lice, body

Life cycle of locusts

Lincoln, Abraham

Linnaeus, Carolus

Literary accounts of locusts

Little Ice Age

Lockwood, Jeffrey

and extinction of Rocky Mountain locust

and conversations with Larry DeBrey regarding locust’s disappearance

and designing experiments

feelings when he began search for cause of extinction of Rocky Mountain locust

and finding locusts in Yellowstone National Park

and funding attempts following 1987 expedition

and Grasshopper Glacier expedition of 1987

and Grasshopper Glacier expedition of 1988

and Grasshopper Glacier expedition of 1989

and Knife Point Glacier expeditions of 1989 and 1990

and passion for grasshopper biology and ecology

and personal experience of grasshopper swarm

personal reasons for Grasshopper Glacier expedition

and position at University of Wyoming

and renewed passion for finding Rocky Mountain locust specimen after initial criticisms

and teaching at University of Wyoming

and treatments for rangeland grasshopper outbreaks

Locust

definition of

derivation of word

Locusta danica

Locusta migratoria

“Locust body bag”

Locust-Catchers

Locust-Crushers

Locust migratoriodes

Locust pardalina

Locust swarms of
Locusta migratoria
in Central Asia

Lonesome Dove
(McMurtry)

Longgrass prairie

Love, Charlie

and Knife Point expedition of 1989

Lovelace, Maud Hart and Delos

Lugger, Otto

Machinery to kill locusts

and gathering and poisoning or bagging

and U.S. Entomological Commission

Malaria

Mandibles as means to identify grasshoppers

Manitoba outbreak in 1902

Mantua locust swarm

Marx, Karl

Masanissa and deaths from rotting locusts

McMurtry, Larry

McNeal, Abram

McPhee, John

Mediterranean fruit fly

Melanoplus bivittatus

Melanoplus bruneri

Melanoplus femurrubrum See
Redlegged grasshopper

Melanoplus
genus

Melanoplus infantilis

Melanoplus rugglesi

Melanoplus sanguinipes See
Migratory grasshopper

Melanoplus spretus
.
See
Rocky Mountain locust

Mexico

Migration circuit

Migratory grasshopper

and alfalfa

and Brett’s attempt to induce phase transformation

and Faure’s attempt to produce Rocky Mountain locust phase

and food plants as factors in ecology of

Latin name of

as possible changeling form of Rocky Mountain locust

Milkweed

Mining

Minnesota

and Carolina grasshopper

and conscription of locust fighters

day of prayer of fasting and prayer in, April 1877

and giving of seed

and Grasshopper Legislature

and public assistance

Missouri

and bounty payments

day of public prayer in June 1875

Riley as state entomologist of

Mobility

Molecular analysis

Monarch butterflies

Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve

Money as measure of virtue and social worth

Mormon crickets

Mormons

and locusts as punishment for having failed to observe the Sabbath in 1850s

and locusts as tests of faith

Moses

Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard

Naming, taxonomic

NASA

National defense and public assistance

National Geographic Society

National Guard and grasshopper swarms

National Museum of Natural History

Native American Indians

decline of and extinction of locusts

and destruction of bison

and eating of locusts

and locust swarms prior to European arrival

and replacement of forested land with grassland

and river valleys

Native birds

Natural disaster

Natural predators for locusts

Natural theology

Nebraska

and conscription of locust fighters

and federal food distribution

Nebraska Relief and Aid Association

Nickodemus, Ken

Nunamaker, Dick

Nymphs

and alfalfa deleterious to

destroying of by farmers

life cycle of

no command structure within

and phase transformations

sounds of moving across landscape

Objectivity, scientific

Oblinger, Mattie

Odors of rotting locusts

Oklahoma Land Rush

Old Lady Horse

Old Testament locust swarms

On the Banks of Plum Creek
(Wilder)

O Pioneers!
(Cather)

Ord, Edward Ortho Cresap

Oregon Trail

Orosius, Paulus

Osborn, Thomas

Outbreak cycle of locust swarms

Outbreaks of locust swarms

in 1880s and 1890s

prior to European arrival

Overwhelming nature of locust swarms

Packard, Alpheus Spring, Jr. (“Alpha”)

background and career of

career of after commission

and eating locusts

Palmerston, Lord

Panic of 1873

Pans

Pasteur, Louis

Paul, Saint

Permanent Zone

favorable habitat places for locusts within

and flooding and destruction of locust eggs

as most vulnerable time

and numbers who survived between outbreaks

overlapping with cultivated lands in 1880

plowing of

and Rocky Mountains as source of outbreaks

Peru

Peteler Locust-Crushing Machine

Pfadt, Robert

Phase transformation theory

and attempts to create in Migratory grasshopper

and control of locusts during solitary phase

in different species

ecological triggers and physiological mechanisms of

and Rocky Mountain locust as separate species

and search in case of Rocky Mountain locust

and solitary and swarming phases

Phylloxera

Pigs

Pillsbury, John

Pinworms

Pioneers.
See
Farmers/settlers

Pliny

Plotnikov, Vassily

Plowing

Politicians

Polynesians

Pope, John

Population size of locusts in 1870s

Poultry

eggs and flesh of inedible by human after poultry ate locusts

as predators of locusts

Poverty

ethical response to

as moral weakness vs. blameless misfortune

relation of federal government to

Powell, John Wesley

Practical Entomologist
(journal)

Prairie Farmer
(journal)

Pratt, Milando

Pratt, Orson

Preventative control and phase transformations

Protein testing and analysis

Public assistance

and admitting problem and discouraging new settlers

and bounty payments

and federal government

initially from private organizations

little available from county sources

and providing farmers with seed

at states level

those accepting lacking moral character

See also
Federal government public assistance; Poverty

Public ignorance of entomology regarding locusts

Punishment

and AIDS

and failure to observe Sabbath

locusts as God’s

and Riley

Pyne, Stephen

Quantifying invasions

Radioactive carbon dating

Railroads

Ratner, Jonathan

Redlegged grasshopper

Religious response to locusts

and call for repentance and entreaty for removal of scourge

and days of prayer and fasting

historical

as sign of God or sign of Satan

and St. Magnus and locust swarm of 666

See also
Christian response to locusts; Mormons

Reproduction

“Revision of the Genus
Locusta
with a New Theory as to the Periodicity and Migrations of Locusts” (Uvarov)

Riegert, Paul

Riley, Charles Valentine

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