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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.
1875 cartoon by Henry Worrall showing Kansas farmers battling giant grasshoppers. The last major swarms of Rocky Mountain locust were between 1873 and 1877, when the locust caused $200 million in crop damage in Colorado, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska and other states.
No taxonomic distinction is made between locust and grasshopper species; the basis for the definition is whether a species forms swarms under intermittently suitable conditions; this has evolved independently in multiple lineages, comprising at least 18 genera in 5 different subfamilies.
Grasshoppers and beetles aren't particularly threatening to humans, but they still manage to freak a lot of people out. If you're made uneasy by these bugs, you may want to steer clear of the ...
The Christian pilgrimage shrine (German: Wahlfahrtsort) [15] (German: Gnadenkapelle) [16] [17] known as St. Boniface Chapel was built in 1877, similarly to the far more famous "Assumption Chapel" near Cold Spring, as a desperate petition for divine intervention from the Rocky Mountain locusts; a now extinct species of giant grasshopper, whose enormous migrating swarms blotted out the sunlight ...
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 ...
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