Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, March 14, 1885
[Popular Science News.] Â Â Â Â A queer way of employing ants is reported by an English gentleman who has been traveling through one of the provinces of China. It appears that, in many parts of the province of Canton, the orange trees are infested by worms; and, to rid themselves of these pests, the natives bring […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 1, 1885
An Ohio Farmer Attacked by Them and Overpowered. Â Â Â Â Dayton, Ohio, July 29.-Mr. Isaiah Burncrat, a farmer living near Chambersburg, a small country village a few miles from here, had a most wonderful experience Tuesday, narrowly escaping being killed by ants. He was picking blackberries in a wild patch in a dense wood, when suddenly […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, June 19, 1875
    It seems that in some parts of Minnesota an attempt has really been made to destroy the grasshoppers by killing them. Counties have offered bounties, and the people have gathered in the pests by the hundred bushels, diminishing the number of devourers very sensibly, and enabling farmers and their families to earn good wages. […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, May 29, 1875
    The latest dispatches from the West are full of encouragement, the heavy rain storms having destroyed millions of the young grasshoppers. The Missouri river is said to be fairly black with them, and on the uplands millions of them are lying dead, having been totally destroyed by the heavy rains on Wednesday and Thursday.
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 19, 1871
    Chafauqua Lake, N. Y., has lately been infested with a great plague of flies. For some days they have gathered around the shores at Mayville in such quanities as to darken the landscape. They are very short lived, and on one morning two and a half baskets of dead flies were swept from the […]
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 15, 1879
Lieut. Lyle, of the United States Army, has made some interesting observations on the food of the robin. He details in the American Naturalist his experience in feeding young birds and testing their decided preference for beetles and other insects, showing that they ate seeds only when there was a lack of insects and that […]
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Published in the Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Friday, July 15, 1870
The Secretary of the Treasury on Wednesday week received from San Francisco, California, a box of dead snakes, bugs, flies, and centipedes, a grim looking collection of Chinese reptiles which had been consigned to a firm in that city, by the firm of Yo Chy Tong & Co., of Canton, to be used by the […]
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, June 9, 1922
By International News Service. Hardisty, Alberta, June 9.-Farmers in the Battle River valley [north of here, are awaiting the arrival of poison from Edmonton to destroy millions of grasshoppers that are menacing their crops. Hundreds of loads of straw are being burned to keep the pests away from the crops until the poison arrives. Considerable […]
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, February 21, 1922
Locusts in immense swarms which covered the permanent way and brought the engine to a standstill held up a train on the Groaff Reinet line, South Africa, for two hours. Passengers and officials, by sweeping steadily with improvised brooms for two hours, continued partially to clear the line to allow the journey being resumed. The […]
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, April 25, 1874
The death of a little colored girl in Alabama is recorded in a local paper which gives as a cause the following: While asleep the ants by the hundreds made an attack on the child, and when she awoke she was literally covered with them, and all busy biting and stinging. They were so ferocious […]