蝗虫
Locust
Jeffrey A. Lockwood · 初版 2004 年
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本书讲述了美国最非凡的一种昆虫的故事，由解开其灭绝之谜的科学家生动叙述。在整个十九世纪，成群的蝗虫定期横扫北美大陆，蔽日遮天让正午沦为黄昏，摧毁农场，被碾碎的虫尸甚至润滑了铁轨导致火车停运。1876年，美国国会宣布蝗虫是“该国定居开拓的最大单一阻碍”。在这部令人惊奇且极具原创性的著作中，Pushcart Prize 得主 Jeffrey Lockwood 着手讲述一种昆虫的故事，以及……
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……参与住房市场，包括个人购房和公共住房（从 20 世纪初开始，这是家庭财富和成功的主要制度驱动力）。作者 Jeffrey Lockwood 的书：《Locust: The Devastating Rise and Mysterious Disappearance of the Insect that Shaped the American Frontier》。我以前完全不知道美国边境地区曾遭受过破坏力极强、全球规模最大的蝗灾，导致……
…participating in the housing market, both personal home ownership and public housing (a major institutional driver of household wealth and success tarting in the early 20th century). By Jeffrey Lockwood: Locust: The Devastating Rise and Mysterious Disappearance of the Insect that Shaped the American Frontier. I had no idea the American frontier was home to devastating largest-in-the-world locust plagues that…
我强烈推荐这篇文章里引用的其中一本书（Jeffrey A. Lockwood 的《Locust》）。他写到了徒步前往冰川寻找保存完好的蝗虫样本、昆虫委员会的成立（他们发现现有的灭蝗措施根本无效），以及各种各样的细节。
I highly recommend one of the books cited in this article (Jeffrey A. Lockwood's Locust). He writes about hiking to the glacier to find preserved locusts, the formation of the Entomological Commission which discovered that existing anti-locust practices were ineffective, all sorts of details.
点了几下才顺藤摸瓜找到来源 10：https://history.nebraska.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/doc_...，而这篇又引用了这本书：https://www.amazon.com/Locust-Devastating-Mysterious-Disappe... 在那个页面上你可以点击“read sample”，然后搜“chicken”，第 3 页上的那条引用似乎就是这个说法的出处。至于它引用的地方，……
Took a few clicks to track down source 10: https://history.nebraska.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/doc_..., which in turn cites this book: https://www.amazon.com/Locust-Devastating-Mysterious-Disappe... On that page you can click “read sample” and then search for “chicken” and the reference on page 3 seems to be the main source of that claim. Where that is quoting,…