From June 10 to 25, 1875, he used a telegraph to collect ... The cloud contained about 3.5 trillion locusts. The Rocky Mountain locust caused more than $200 million in damage to western ...

But there are older, wiser voices to be heard in our biological community, including that of the Rocky Mountain locust. Dr. Child’s record swarm of 1875 probably contained in the neighborhood of ...

“Locusts in 1875 in Colorado were about like wildfires in California in 2020.” Lockwood is so fascinated by the Rocky Mountain locust that he’s written a book about the insect’s influence ...

In 1875, a swarm measuring 124 miles long by ... Rhode Island and Vermont. Rocky Mountain locust outbreaks were cyclical and driven by drought. Locust swarms descended from the Albertan, Montanan ...

Then disaster struck with the arrival of the Rocky Mountain locust invasion of 1875. Favorite quotes from the “Little House” books Laura Ingalls Wilder’s 1916 column for Thanksgiving reminds ...

The last live collection of a Rocky Mountain locust was made in 1902, a full century ago. A map printed with the Times article shows the area covered by the vast locust swarm of 1875. Shaped like ...

The number of insects was mind-boggling: one reliable eyewitness estimated that a swarm of locusts that passed over Plattsmouth, Nebraska, in 1875 ... The Rocky Mountain locust (Melanoplus ...

Strangely, the Rocky Mountain Locust, the grasshopper species responsible for the plague, returned in greatly reduced number in the 1890s and have since disappeared entirely. Many entomologists ...

The insect blackened the skies of North America for centuries and formed a swarm covering nearly 200,000-square miles in 1875. Even more remarkable ... The environmental history of the Rocky Mountain ...