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OBSERVATIONS on mass flights of the migratory grasshopper, Melanoplus bilituratus (Walker) = (M. mexicanus mexicanus (Sauss.)), in 1938–40, indicated that large populations had moved 165–575 miles usually in a downwind direction1. During these prolonged flights the insects travelled 15–30 miles a day at an average speed of about 10–12 m.p.h. The wind during such flights was between 2 and 10 m.p.h.
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RIEGERT, P. Flight of Grasshoppers in the Laboratory. Nature 194, 1298–1299 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/1941298a0
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