Rocky Mountain grasshopper

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Learn about the Rocky Mountain locust (Melanoplus spretus) that infested Nebraska in 1874–75 and the reason behind their sudden disappearance

Rocky Mountain grasshopper

extinct insect

Also known as: Melanoplus spretus, Rocky Mountain locust

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The Rocky Mountain locust and the migratory grasshopper (Melanoplus spretus and M. sanguinipes, respectively) destroyed many prairie farms in Canada and the United States in the 1870s. Many other species occasionally increase sufficiently in numbers to be called plagues.
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The Rocky Mountain locust and the migratory grasshopper (Melanoplus spretus and M. sanguinipes, respectively) destroyed many prairie farms in Canada and the United States in the 1870s. Many other species occasionally increase sufficiently in numbers to be called plagues.
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