Rocky Mountain Locusts Plague the American Midwest



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Y/M/D Description Place
1874/00/00 As a child, Laura Ingalls survives a cloud of 3.5 trillion locusts.
1875/06/00 Rocky Mountain locusts pass over Plattsmouth, Nebraska. By timing the speed of the swarm streaming by for 5 days and by telegraphing to nearby towns, Albert L Child estimates the swarm to be 1,800 miles long and at least 110 miles wide. Plattsmouth, Nebraska
1902/00/00 For unkown reasons, the Rocky Mountain locusts becomes extinct c 1902.

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