Armed, Legged and Winged and Fully Equipped for War

"The destroying angels are abroad", the Deseret News, the local Salt Lake City, Utah, newspaper reported in June of 1877. The destroying angels were grasshoppers (Rocky Mountain Locusts), swarms of them, and reportedly, they could "darken the sky for three miles deep". A local woman described the day she went outdoors to see what was bumping against her windows and found millions covering her house, yard, garden and the laundry she'd hung out to dry. They ate the crops, window shades a...