DEVASTATION BY CRICKETS.
Accounts are published of the devastation caused by crickets in Algeria. The insects resemble, but are not identical with either locusts or grasshoppers. Last year swarms of grasshoppers ravaged the colony. This year the crickets have taken their place. They spring like grasshoppers, but have a more rapid and sustained flight. They form clouds, which shut out tho light of the nn, When they alight on the ground they destroy every trace of vegetation. They sometimes fell exhausted on the ground in snch numbers as to cover it with a layer of dead bodies, from which pestilential exhalations arise. Tho correspondent of a Paris newspaper, in a letter from Algeria says that tho railway trains have been stopped by the insects between Constantine and Batna.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2504, 28 July 1888, Page 6 (Supplement)
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128DEVASTATION BY CRICKETS. Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2504, 28 July 1888, Page 6 (Supplement)
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