Excerpt from The Natural History of Insects, Vol. 2 of 2
The Idea entertained by the Ancients, by the Arabs - The supposed Meaning of the Letters on their Wings, &c. Their Food - Ravages - The Description given by J oel The Beneficial Results from the Locusts, used as Food Niebuhr's Account - Their Ravages in Barbary, in Tran sylvania, in Spain - Size of the largest Species - Ravages in Mahratta and in Africa - The Wart-eating Locust Prickly Grasshopper - Ou the Metamorphoses of this kind of Insects.
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