Category: locust

When the Little House on the Prairie Met Disaster

Life on Plum Creek that June of 1875 looked bright as a new penny to Charles Ingalls, his wife Caroline, and their three young daughters. For months, the family had lived in a dugout on their homestead while Charles plowed fields for wheat and dug a well near the spot where he planned to build…


Sardinian Farmers Suffer Worst Locust Invasion in Over 30 Years

MILAN—When farmer Rita Tolu saw “a big black wave storming across the horizon and taking over the fields” in April, she knew that little of her dried fodder and alfalfa crops would be left in the following days. Tolu, 40, and other farmers working the central areas of the Italian island of Sardinia have seen…