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Show Swarm of Locusts ( Move Over Nevada A massive horde of destructive migratory locusts, biggest in history, his-tory, was eating its way slowly today across northern Nevada's barren rangelands. The insects, rumbling like a distant dis-tant freight train as they devastated devas-tated the rangeland over which they passed, were headed toward the lush grasslands of southern Oregon, and the agricultural areas of northern California. Harry Galloway of the Nevada department of agriculture said the locusts, more destructive than the grasshoppeers, covered an area 75 miles in length and 40 miles wide nearly 3,000 square miles. The department of agriculture unable to identify the insects precisely, pre-cisely, has called them "western range locusts". Galloway explained that the locust lo-cust bands constituting the insect horde move at the rate of two to six miles a day. At present, the locusts are concentrated con-centrated near Denio on the Oregon Ore-gon border, spreading out into Washoe and Humboldt counties in Nevada. Rather illogicaliy, they fly against the prevailing winds. They fly by daylight only and turn daylight day-light into semi-darkness by the sheer volume of numbers. |