Chinese reports have made much of the affair, and have talked about the sun being obscured and the commander of the Woosung Forts riving orders to his men to turn out and attack the locusts. How much of this is true it is mot possible to ascertain, but foreigners certainly vouch for' the fact that, especially on July 21, locusts were flying about in fairly large clouds land that they got to be something more than a Joke, They were also reported by foreigners to be very thick over tha land from the Point to Woovung on Sunday, apparently coming from the north.
The particular nuisance' concerned here {s the Pachytylus cineascens, the Chinese migratory locust, which closely related to the Pachytylu: migratorius of Southern Europe and Central Asia, the locust of the Bible. The locust is a voracious insect, but he does. not spend his life flying about in clouds providing copy for newspapers and bankruptey for farmers.
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