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Took a few clicks to track down source 10: https://history.nebraska.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/doc_publications_NH2008Grasshoppered.pdf https://history.nebr

Took a few clicks to track down source 10: https://history.nebraska.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/doc_publications_NH2008Grasshoppered.pdf https://history.nebraska.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/doc_..., which in turn cites this book: https://www.amazon.com/Locust-Devastating-Mysterious-Disappearance-American/dp/0465041671 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, I’m not sure.

card_zero 5mo ago
Thanks! So the connection between the tainted taste (source on that still unknown) and this essential oil of locust is just Lockwood spitballing: > Although the insects had no defensive chemicals in their bodies, a diet saturated with locusts rendered the eggs and flesh of chickens inedible. Studies at the time found that the locusts were remarkably rich in a “reddish-brown oil of very pungent and penetrating odor,” and perhaps this accounts for the tainted meat. They were not "rich" in this oil: https://archive.org/details/firstanuualrepor01unit/page/442/mode/1up?q=pungent https://archive.org/details/firstanuualrepor01unit/page/442/... Oil, .004 percent. Still, a little oil can go a long way, so perhaps.