Posted on 03/21/2020 4:29:10 AM PDT by Kaslin
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It appears that we plowed up their main breeding grounds...
“On the basis of a synthesis of the detailed information gathered by the Entomological Commission, settlement records, and other evidence, Lockwood has arrived at a new explanation of the locust’s disappearance, which he calls “my habitat destruction theory.” He maintains that cattle grazing and homesteaders’ cultivation of a restricted region of the plains—the permanent breeding grounds of the insect—during a population recession of the locust in the 1880s may have irreversibly disrupted locust reproduction. Others had shown that grasshopper eggs fail to hatch if the soil they are deposited in is disturbed by plowing or by other means.”
And you could use the leg stems as tooth picks.
“How many lives are you willing to let starve slowly to death, men, women, and children before you would give?...What is the population of Africa?”
Precious in Gods eyes...
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