The death of the Super Hopper
How early settlers unwittingly drove their nemesis
extinct, and what it means for us today
Jeffrey Lockwood, High Country News, Feb. 3, 2003
[www.hcn.org]

Rocky Mountain locust (Melanoplus spretus)
[en.wikipedia.org]

Yours,

Paul H.

"The past is never dead. It's not even past."
William Faulkner, Act 1, Scene III, Requiem for a Nun (1951)