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The Rhode Island American, And General Advertiser
Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island
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Swarms of locusts recently appeared near Northampton, Mass., extending 20-30 miles south along the Connecticut River's right bank, causing extensive damage to timber with many trees already dead. Females sting small limbs.
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Swarms of locusts have recently appeared in this part of the country, extending upon the right bank of Connecticut river twenty or thirty miles south of the town. It is impossible to measure the extent of the injury they are doing to the timber. Many trees are even now apparently dead. The female locusts are armed with a sting of nearly the third of an inch in length, and of the stiffness and point of a wire sharpened. They attach themselves to the under side of the small limbs, and commence the process of stinging.
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Primary Location
Northampton (Mass.)
Event Date
June 30.
Outcome
many trees are apparently dead; extensive injury to timber.
Event Details
Swarms of locusts have recently appeared in this part of the country, extending upon the right bank of Connecticut river twenty or thirty miles south of the town. It is impossible to measure the extent of the injury they are doing to the timber. The female locusts are armed with a sting of nearly the third of an inch in length, and of the stiffness and point of a wire sharpened. They attach themselves to the under side of the small limbs, and commence the process of stinging.