Albert's swarm
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title:
Albert's swarm
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Albert's swarm was an immense concentration of the Rocky Mountain locust that swarmed the Western United States in 1875. It was named after Albert Child, a physician interested in meteorology, who calculated the size of the swarm to 198,000 square miles (510,000 km2) by multiplying the swarm's estimated speed with the time it took for it to move through southern Nebraska. The 1875 swarm is referred to repeatedly in a western Missouri historical record that explains: One estimate numbers the locu
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1875 infestation of Rocky Mountain locusts
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%27s_swarm
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2023-05-25T04:36:05Z
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