Locusts

John Schmidt, a Rutgers University entomologist, explains the latest discoveries in protection from locust plagues. The historical incidence of locust plagues in Egypt and China dates back as far as the Biblical Seventh Plague vented on the Egyptians. The story progresses to more recent history when Brigham Young's Mormon settlement was infested in Utah and to the twentieth century when an enormous swarm of locusts attacked Morocco. Models and microscopic views of locusts are shown in the studio, while Schmidt discusses various aspects of their behavior and entomological methods devised to combat the ravenous insects. Film material entitled Teeth of the Wind is shown with the cooperation of the U.S. Information Agency.