Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1885 — The Seventeen-Tear Locusts. [ARTICLE]

The Seventeen-Tear Locusts.

Washington telegram: Prof. Riley says the seventeen-year locusts, whose visit he has predicted, are harmless to growing crops, and do no injury except to the twigs or forest and fruit trees. Wherever young orchards have been i planted on land which has been cleared during the last seventeen years the trees are liable to suffer somewhat, but it is probable kerosene spray will protect them. The ordinary locust, which is so destructive to growing crops, haa jaws which cut, while the seventeen-vear species, more properly called the Cicada, has only a beak through which he sucks his nourishment.