THG Podcast: Grape Blights and Grasshopper Plagues
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- Опубликовано: 6 май 2024
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On today’s episode the History Guy tells two stories of bugs and destruction. First he talks about the great Wine Blight, where pests nearly wiped out the French wine industry. Then he talks about the Rocky Mountain Locust and the plague of 1874.
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I can't help but wonder if there was a connection between the grasshopper plague and the destruction of the buffalo herds. It looks like the buffalo being almost wiped out might have left more grass for the grasshoppers and that might have allowed the swarms to multiply much more than they did before. The timing of the two might be more than a coincidence. 🤷🏼
Buffalo herds were wiped out to starve the Natives.
Everything is connected. It makes sense
54:00 A surprisingly small number of locusts can bring rail traffic to a halt. All that is required are sufficient numbers to slick up the rail heads...
I had read that for a while, Missouri was the world's largest wine producer because of the blight in France.
Interesting.
Here in yhe upper Midwest we had dutch elm diease that killed off most of the American Elm. It was devastating, 3/4s of our trees were gone. This was the mid 70s. Well people planted a lot of Ash trees as they grew fast and are great shade trees. Well in the 2000s we got an ash borer that killed off most of the Ash. Dependence on one tree or plant is a vad idea
There is a reason the University of Nebraska football team was called "BugEaters"
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Have you ever had an episode on the Mormon cricket invasion of 1848 and how the California Seagull became the Utah state bird? It is definitely history worth remembering. The story is similar to this story, but the Mormon crickets are still around and periodically still swarm across various parts of the Great Basin area. BTW, Mormon crickets are NOT grasshoppers. They are more closely related to katydids.
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I heard that Texas rootstock was used in France. Wild grapes abound in Texas from Grapevine (city/lake near Dallas) to Deep East Texas to Central Texas and we had a massive arbor in El Paso. The rootstock might have been used in part or in volume later as the wild grape is not an eating but a 'country Jelly' grape. It is a bitter purple. Also pondering on the subject - why didn't the Germans and Italians help out - grape countries. Sounds like hatred of stealing grape country from each other might have stopped the concept. Our grapes were old heavy root and maybe not Europe's cultivated versions.
3rd, 7 May 2024
Apples were brought over to the US for making Apple Jack. Not for eating. When apples started to be eaten more varieties were made.
Nitpick, but Reading, Pennsylvania is pronounced Red-ding. PA has all sorts of weird pronunciations
⚽Whats the PLAN = corporate-controlled future, an ultra-violent sport aka WAR