Show grasshopper postage depredations of grasshoppers in 1925 which seriously threatened the food supply of mexico was responsible for a special issue of 0 postage stamps in that country all letters were required to carry a special one centavo stamp in addition to the regular postage money honey received from the use of this stamp was turned over to a fund to combat the grasshoppers and locusts consequently this stamp became known to philatelists as the grasshopper sta stamp mp pathfinder pa th finder magazine |