The Great North American Locust Plague
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Locusts are grasshoppers - with unusual superpowers. When triggered by overcrowding they literallytransform themselves - changing from green to brown, eating more, getting muscular, matingmore, and congregating in crowds. Then, their shy alteregos forgotten, they swarm acrossthe landscape, searching for food, colonizing and recolonizing breeding grounds, and beinga general nuisance. There are about a dozen locust species onEarth, and only one has been found in North America: the Rocky Mountain locust, whichdevastated crops across the Great Plains from 1850 to 1880. The fact that the locusts preferredcultivated crops to prairie grasses ensured that their massive swarms caught the attentionof white settlers... though really, the locusts would have been hard to miss.One o...
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Locusts are grasshoppers - with unusual superpowers. When triggered by overcrowding they literallytransform themselves - changing from green to brown, eating more, getting muscular, matingmore, and congregating in crowds. Then, their shy alteregos forgotten, they swarm acrossthe landscape, searching for food, colonizing and recolonizing breeding grounds, and beinga general nuisance. There are about a dozen locust species onEarth, and only one has been found in North America: the Rocky Mountain locust, whichdevastated crops across the Great Plains from 1850 to 1880. The fact that the locusts preferredcultivated crops to prairie grasses ensured that their massive swarms caught the attentionof white settlers... though really, the locusts would have been hard to miss.One o...
