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North America
The size of the swarm
was estimated to be
1,800 miles (2,900 km)
long and 110 miles
(175 km) wide.
By eating
their body-
weight— The biggest
0.07 oz locust swarm
(2 g)—in attacked an
vegetation a area covered
day, the locusts today by
caused $200
million-worth of 11 US states.
damage to crops between
1873 and 1877. This would
be $4 billion today.
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