Sentences with phrase «mountain locust»

While fossil evidence shows that the voracious Rocky Mountain locust was rampant in what is now North America as early as the 12th century, it didn't reach its peak of collective destructiveness there until the 1870s.

In the case of the Rocky Mountain locust, however, the swarmingis more mysterious.

Although the Rocky Mountain locust, the species that wreaked havoc here in the 19th century, does seem tohave disappeared, its ecological niche may be only temporarily vacant.

Bomar suggests these other species, especially thered - legged grasshopper and the migratory grasshopper, are stepping intothe niche the Rocky Mountain locust vacated.

Even though existing North American grasshopperspecies don't migrate as readily as the Rocky Mountain locust did, someof them do swarm in less dramatic migrations.

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Undeterred by plagues of locusts and the infernal heat, Emma Sloley escapes a scorching summer on a drive through the Snowy Mountains in southeastern Australia