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. Residents described swarms so ...

The invasion began in late July when without warning millions of grasshoppers, or Rocky Mountain locusts, descended on the prairies from the Dakotas to Texas. The insects arrived in swarms so large they blocked out the sun and sounded like a rainstorm.

An invasion of grasshoppers began in July 1874 when millions of insects, more accurately called Rocky Mountain locusts, descended on the prairies from North Dakota to Texas without warning. They arrived in swarms so large they blocked out the sun and sounded like a rainstorm.

For five years, from 1873 to 1877, grasshoppers destroyed wheat, oat, corn, and barley fields in Minnesota and surrounding states. In 1876 alone, grasshoppers visited forty Minnesota counties and destroyed 500,000 acres of crops.

2016年3月1日 · What Marcks described as “a moving, struggling mass” of grasshoppers—technically, Rocky Mountain locusts (Melanoplus spretus)—had invaded the Great Plains. Farmers, their pants legs cinched with string, ran to cover their valuable wells.

The invasion began in late July when without warning millions of grasshoppers, or Rocky Mountain locusts, descended on the prairies from the Dakotas to Texas. The insects arrived in swarms so large they blocked out the sun and sounded like a rainstorm.

of 1874, a plague of Rocky Mountain locusts (popularly called grasshoppers) denuded the fields and crushed the spirits of thousands of settlers in the Great Plains and Mid west. Reports of the infestation and destruction circulated throughout the nation and …

The Grasshopper Plague of 1874 Source unknown, Found in Roots magazine, 2:2 (Winter 1973-4), p. 24 "...the fact is crops are almost entirely destroyed, and we have doubt if even grain enough will be cut and threshed in the county to make straw enough to fill a bed tick.

July 25, 1874. “At 5 p.m., Friday, a shower of grasshoppers descended upon this region, until the ground was literally covered with the devilish insects. The country was covered with them, from Little Rock to Sioux Falls, and north to LuVerne, Minnesota.

Introduce the lesson by reading with the class “Grasshopper Plague of 1874” from the KSHS.org/Kansapedia website. Discuss the article to help students understand the devastation caused by a grasshopper invasion.