Most of the full-grown locusts die in the fall.
As you know, the young ones have no wings, and this is why there are so few winged locusts early in the summer.
Some locusts make their holes in fence rails or in old stumps.
It is the locusts, or shorthorned grasshoppers, that sometimes come in swarms that darken the sun.
There is nothing the Western farmer dreads so much as a swarm of locusts.
I have heard how the grasshoppers came in Kansas one year.
They appeared all of a sudden in countless millions.
They were piled up against the fences clear to the top.
They swarmed into the houses, and in places on the railroad track they were piled so deep the trains could not run through them.