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The Locust Plague of 1874, or the Grasshopper Plague of 1874, occurred in the summer of 1874 when hordes of Rocky Mountain locusts invaded the Great Plains in the United States and Canada. The locusts swarmed over an estimated 2,000,000 square miles (5,200,000 km 2) and caused millions of dollars' worth of damage. Residents described swarms so ...
The novel was the first of five Newbery Honor books for Wilder, books 4 to 8 in the series. [4] In 1997, the novel was challenged by two parents from Winnipeg, Canada who took issue with the portrayal of Native Americans in it and wanted a local school division to pull it from its libraries and lessons. The word "Indian", referring to Native ...
Albert's swarm was an immense concentration of the Rocky Mountain locust that swarmed the Western United States in 1875. It was named after Albert Child, a physician interested in meteorology , who calculated the size of the swarm to 198,000 square miles (510,000 km 2 ) by multiplying the swarm's estimated speed with the time it took for it to ...
A fictionalized description of the devastation created by Rocky Mountain locusts in the 1870s can be found in the 1937 novel On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder. Her description was based on actual incidents in western Minnesota during the summers of 1874 and 1875 as the locusts destroyed her family's wheat crop. [28]
Plagues of Egypt: Not verified Egypt: Desert locust: Locust Plague of 1874: 1874 United States: Rocky Mountain locust: Albert's swarm: 1875 United States: 3.5 – 12.5 trillion Rocky Mountain locust: 1915 Ottoman Syria locust infestation: 1915 Israel, Lebanon, and Syria: 2003–2005 Africa locust infestation: 2003–05 West Africa 2013 ...
Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk's latest novel, "Nights of Plague," depicts a Mediterranean island throwing off the yoke of empire during a plague year.
The Deluge saw Poland lose an estimated 1/3 of its population due to wars, famine, and plague [citation needed] Poland: 1649: Famine in northern England [50] England: 1650–1652: Famine in the east of France [51] France: 1651–1653: Famine throughout much of Ireland during the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland [52] Ireland: 1661
Roughly 2 to 3 inches long, the insects have a hard, dark-colored shell. Females have a sword-like tail called an ovipositor, which they use to deposit their eggs into the soil. “They’re not ...