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In One Year, 12 Trillion Locusts Devastated the Great Plains - and Then They Went Extinct
By Matt Reimann/ Contributing Writer/ Timeline/ timeline.com
"The American West is a land of booms and busts. But there was perhaps no bust quite as biblical as the great Rocky Mountain locust swarms of the 1870s.
The insects descended by the trillions on the Great Plains, spreading over a vast portion of land from Montana across to Minnesota and down to Texas. Ravaging farmland, the locusts devoured not only crops but gnawed on nearly any organic material, including sawdust, leather, and the very clothes on people’s backs. Swarming in numbers perhaps unseen in history, they brought staggering economic ruin to rural communities, and in extreme cases, even death...."
Specimens of the now extinct Rocky Mountain Locust, photographed in the 1870s. (Wikimedia)
Richard
By Matt Reimann/ Contributing Writer/ Timeline/ timeline.com
"The American West is a land of booms and busts. But there was perhaps no bust quite as biblical as the great Rocky Mountain locust swarms of the 1870s.
The insects descended by the trillions on the Great Plains, spreading over a vast portion of land from Montana across to Minnesota and down to Texas. Ravaging farmland, the locusts devoured not only crops but gnawed on nearly any organic material, including sawdust, leather, and the very clothes on people’s backs. Swarming in numbers perhaps unseen in history, they brought staggering economic ruin to rural communities, and in extreme cases, even death...."
Specimens of the now extinct Rocky Mountain Locust, photographed in the 1870s. (Wikimedia)
Richard
