Wednesday, June 24, 2020

Could A Locust Plague Of Biblical Proportions Devastate The U.S.?

With huge crop-devouring locust swarms currently spreading from Paraguay into Argentina in South America… It’s more than normal to ask us if a biblical locust plague could spread in the U.S. And even if it’s not likely these days, those flying insects decimated American farmers in the past.

Could A Locust Plague of Biblical Proportions Devastate The U.S.? What is currently happening in East Africa, Middle East and Southeastern Asia and has now very recently started in South America once also happened in the U.S.!

During the 1800s, Rocky Mountain locust swarms periodically destroyed U.S. crop fields. Within a short span of hours, locust swarms could blow in and devour everything a farmer had. In fact, in 1875, the largest locust cloud in world history was recorded over the Midwest. It covered 198,000 square miles and was estimated to contain several trillion locusts and perhaps weighed several million tons. -Full Report