Female grasshoppers will lay from 600 to 800 eggs at a time, so that, in the course of one year, a single grasshopper may ho responsible for from 150,000 to 400,000 descendants. Smoke and its bad effects cause heavy losses to English cities, the bill for London being £6,815,000; for Manchester, £2,900,000; for Liverpool, £2,308,000; lor Sheffield, £1,277,000.
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Evening Star, Issue 21013, 29 January 1932, Page 6
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