The Great North American Locust Plague

The video discusses the transformation and behavior of locusts, focusing on the Rocky Mountain locusts that devastated crops in North America from 1850 to 1880. These locusts preferred cultivated crops, leading to massive swarms that caught settlers' attention. Efforts to control them included bounty hunting and dynamiting breeding grounds. However, settlers accidentally caused their extinction by farming in their breeding areas, making it the only known pest species extinction due to agriculture.

Describe the size and duration of the locust swarms observed in 1875.

What led to the extinction of the Rocky Mountain locust?