The Great North American Locust Plague
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- Опубліковано 8 лип 2013
- The incredible boom and bust of the Rocky Mountain locust
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Created by Henry Reich, with Alex Reich, Peter Reich, Emily Elert, and Rose Eveleth.
Music by Nathaniel Schroeder / drschroeder
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Thanks to Dr. Jeffrey Alan Lockwood for his expert consultation.
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REFERENCES
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Lockwood , J. A. and L. D. DeBrey. 1990. A solution for the sudden and unexplained extinction of the Rocky Mountain locust, Melanoplus spretus (Walsh). Environmental Entomology 19, 1194 - 1205.
Lockwood , J. A. 2010. The fate of the Rocky Mountain locust, Melanoplus spretus
Walsh: implications for conservation biology. Terrestrial Arthropod Reviews 3,129--160 - Наука та технологія
So wait...the locusts are around, just in like, grasshopper form...?
Yeah
In the case of the Rocky Mountain species, the answer is no, although a few biologists think there MIGHT be a faint chance some still exist in low numbers in places like Yellowstone National Park and extremely remote mountain valleys that never were plowed.
Not that particular species. And the only real difference between locust plagues and grass hopper plagues is that the grasshoppers tend to devastate their local area whereas the locusts undergo long distance dispersal.
ive seen one in Texas it was large spotted looked exactly like described in the video it was on a wall attracted to a light bulb
Think Alolan form.
so destroying it's eggs works better than destroy it before it lays eggs
Well it makes sense since they'll die soon and if you can't have a offspring that lives and grows then pretty much it's like the mafia killing a child rather than the parents... in a very grim way of explaining it. =X Yaaa sooo. *cough*
And thus the age old question of which came first is solved!!
i imagine that if I threatened a pre-tranformation locust, it'd be like, "this isn't even my final form!"
lmao
Nah Man That's Just Frieza In Locust Form
What an irony. The stuff that made your food - which in turn made you strong and powerful - was also your destroyer.
Is anyone else hearing "eggriculture?"
I am.
They probably had hens, too!
Me!
LocoErnesto - yes
~eh too
I want to be sad about extinction, but I just can't; not for locusts.
Extinction is good or bad depending on the specie.
In fact, every day, species are go extinct while others are spawned. So "Extinction" isn't such a big deal.
SinerAthin There is no good or bad. Thats a more arbitrary concept than time.
I think that's why they call it a pest, by killing them off you only help the ecosystem
Making anything go extinct (with mabey the exeption of a few microscopic organisms) would no matter what always have a negative impact in some way
TheCamoCaliber lice bed bugs ticks and fleas are useless and would have no impact what so ever if they went extinct
I wonder if the locust are still around in grasshopper form.
Yes they are, here at least in Alberta and they are yummy,
Thats what we thought but we conducted overpopulation experiments on virtually all grasshopper species we know, but we never got the locust transformation. We believe the ones that could were a distinct species that are now extinct
That's sad :(
the extinction of a species is good?
Lil' Pound Cake Locust was a harmful species
Eggriculture?
I basically did something about the matter.
Agriculture?
It the midwestern accent
My username is so obnoxiously long and there is absolutely nothing you can do about the matter ooooo
My username is so obnoxiously long and there is absolutely nothing you can do about the matter of big shit
I must say, this is a great series!
I clicked on a video by accident and ended up being unable to stop watching..
The visualizations are an amazing aid to the given information, too.
Thumbs up!
Says their extincted, then Las Vegas has a locust swarm 2 days ago.
It was a different species. I killed as many as I could.
I'm a simple girl, I see two locust topping each other, I click.
I'll step on both of them: two for one!
For fuck sake🤦♂️
Still trying to figure out where the Australian Plague Locust at 0:27 comes from.
I think Greenland?
@@belindarees No man it's Austria! That's what the Australian part means!
@@TrainerAQ Austria is different from Australia
@@liahfaye everyone knows. Australia is mountainous and Austria has Kangaroos
My guess is Austria
"And Canada" *shows UK flag*
;-;
:D uk power
Kay
Eh.. hi
because Canada was British North America at the time
XD
My great-great-great grandmother lived in Kansas during the locust plague. She was a widow and raised ten children on her own on a farm that was completely devastated by the insects.
Sounds like she bred like a locust
How do you even know about your great x3 grandma
Uh people telling them? Her great great or great grandma could have told them or a family member, or the story could have been passed down.
"Courage the cowardly dog". One of the best and most bizzare cartoons I watched when I was growing up.
Also, the reference to them eating “the wool off sheep” has to be the funniest thing I’ve read all day. Oh, the mental images.
I know it's horrible, but this makes me feel sort of proud to be part of such a powerful species.
Glad they wiped them out, even if it was by accident. Locust swarms and famine don't sound fun.
DeadlyHandle they still swarm as grasshoppers in the south and Midwest at least.
Hello I'm making this comment because i want u (The person who made this comment) too come back to this comment, and see how long ago you posted this. But u might not come back to this comment thats fine.
God the absolute stupidity of some of these people in the comments!
This includes you 'deadlyhandle'
Love ur videos! So rad!!
That's really fascinating! Going to check out your channel for sure.
I dont get it because I live In the southern United States, which is North America, and we have locusts around here. You only see them every few years, but they have been around since I was a small child. I remember collecting their shells (exoskeleton) when I was a kid and I saw some locusts this year. So, how are they extinct?
You may be mistaking locusts for cicadas. Cicadas in the southern U.S. like Arizona (where I'm from) are annual cicadas that gestate for a year before emerging from the ground, climbing onto a tree or a fence or a wall, molting and then mating. They're the ones that make that extremely annoying buzzing sound in the summer. Apparently, (according to Wikipedia at least) they're commonly called locusts in some areas but this is, in fact, a misnomer.
Yes, what you are talking about are cicadas. In my area, they call them "July flies." It's a completely different species. They do swarm, but they are not an agriculture pest. They mainly feed on tree and plant sap, which is why you'll often find their shells on the trunks of pine trees.
Also locusts *not cicadas* exist,too.
We had swarms of grasshoppers in Las Vegas last year. I don't know why they weren't called locusts because they acted the same way.
Pause at 0:28 lol I love these people
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i always like the way you end your videos. keep up the good work!
watched all of your videos, keep up the good work
I like the way he says "agriculture"
"eggriculture"
i think that how you say it
"'swarming white settlers""...lol
das raysis
Silicon Cake no. If it's a joke against white people it can't be raysis
wtf is a raysis XD it's racist
Trophgaming 04 it’s a meme
In college my sociology professor told me denying a white person a job based on the color of their skin is not discrimination because white people are in power, therefor can't be discriminated against.
Great episode, as always! :D
I love this channel
Is that a Minnesota accent?
"Egg-riculture"
Very cool❤❤❤ I love how well u made this fun and easy to understand
I'm laughing hysterically because you just wrote "Guess where" next to the Australian Plague Locust
Want to get rid of a swarm ?
Easy
1-get a flamethrower
2-???
3-profit
+Saleh ALShami
Given the stated size of that swarm, you would run out of fuel before they ran out of bugs.
+Harvey Rabbit Nuke it!!!!! 😜
Zander Caufield
Sigh* that defeats the purpose as it destroys the land you want under the bugs and for miles in the direction of the wind.
Harvey Rabbit It's a joke.
Zander Caufield
I listen to stand-up when I'm looking for a joke. Replying to someone in youtube is hardly the place, especially when you don't know your audience.
good, now let's get rid of mosquitoes.
Yes
No
Mosquitos are actually quite important.. if you did some research you would know why.
No they are not important. How stupid this is to say that. They are the cause of so many deseases transmitions. They kill more than they benefit, idiot.
@@obsidianthedirewolf1530
"As you noticed, there are no keystone species in mosquitoes. No ecosystem depends on any mosquito to the point that it would collapse if they were to disappear. An exception may be the Arctic, but the species there are non-vectors and thus can be left alone."
www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2017/09/13/what-would-happen-if-we-eliminated-the-worlds-mosquitoes/#34e2768211f6
I love this channel so bad!
Thank you for the video, thumbs up.
but Ive seen grass hoppers in my back yard tho
Those arent fucking grasshoppers...
Then wtf are they
+kevin muhanji locusts...
This guy
Ya, I live in the Rocky Mountains, and any (tall grass) field that is not well cared for is guaranteed to have gazoodles of these bastards hopping around at the end of summer. I just stepped on a particularly big female that looked suspiciously likely to lay eggs soon. The things are still a serious nuisance. If the Rocky Mountain locust is extinct, what did I squish?
METRIC PLEASE! Are we scientists, or uneducated laymen?
1700s British sailors
I have a danish ancestor(Peter Madsen) who joined the LDS church in the 1800’s and moved to Utah. He lived in the area near Utah lake(Now called Provo).
I believe in 1848 The locusts wiped out all their crops the first year his family was in Utah and the locusts went all the way to Salt Lake City eating anything not nailed down. The seagulls in SLC ate most of them but Provos crops were decimated.
My ancestor was a fisherman in Denmark and he instructed people in the town how to make nets, barrels and boats. The men cut down trees for boats and barrels and went fishing. He along with his sons brought in tons of fish from Utah lake, so many their nets kept breaking. The lake was stuffed with fish, mostly trout.
The women were responsible for cleaning and packing the fish in salt and repairing the nets. They put the fish in salt and the community survived their first winter in Utah thanks to Peter Madsens experience and the whole community working together.
I heard this story as a kid from my Grandmother who was born in 1920 in Provo. I later also found this story in a book called Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah.
Those were Mormon Crickets, not locusts
Another informative and entertaining video :)
Can you do one of the passenger pigeon? I think it'd be quite interesting to learn about the massive swarms that were 400miles long and blacked out the sun over the eastern sea board.
Are Locus Grass Hoppers???
I think so? They're biologically identical to grasshoppers, but their behavior is way different so I think they're considered a subspecies.
Thanks I wasn't quite sure thought then a again I could of just searched the web
Cameron Foster
Hehe I'm just a huge bug nerd, I've studied insects since I was three. I guess that makes me the one with no life. XD
Best point :thumbsup:
Me,too!
Excellent video
I need more videos!!😄😄😄
can we please make mosquitoes go extinct
Persvades Yes. Please, i would rather get rid of mosquitoes than Some flying grasshoppers. :/
It’s rather impossible, even for us humans. There are over a trillion of them and one female can lay up to 300 eggs every time they lay eggs. It’d be much better to release GMO mosquitoes with a trait that makes them immune to diseases like malaria and Dengue Fever.
Persvades next week alright
Nature is running out of ways to kill us 😢
This video makes me think about making human blood the mosquitoes kryptonite!
You show the flag of united kingdome and not Canada..............
Maybe Canada was still directly under British rule at that time. The video doesn't say when dynamites and stuff were used to get rid of locusts. There were not that many locusts in 1890 already and Canada gained independence in 1867.
It used to include UK..as in British Columbia.
Le Canadian I wonder what country your from.
I remember on my way to kansas we had roughly 3 miles straight of road entirely red, when we got out of the car, every we saw locusts where everywhere, making the road appear red
This channel is excellent :D
Sorry, but where do you find an accent like the narrators'. Cause' I'm never going there. Eggriculture is too much for my ears to handle.
+Colton Byrd midwest...
No. No. No. People in the Midwest do not say eggriculture. I know. I am from Kansas. They do not say eggriculture.
+Colton Byrd Kansas is barely midwest. When I think Midwest, I think Chicago, Detroit, and Minneapolis.
OceanFlex Gamer On the Border, but still. Midwest all the same.
+Colton Byrd that might've actually been a pun since agriculture destroyed the grasshopper eggs.. These guys love to end their videos with a pun.
extinction of a pest species sounds like a victory to me. :D
This was used in my Minnesota Studies class.
Thanks.
Dude, you make things that don't affect me and don't interest me, really damn interesting. I love your videos
i'm glad those locusts are extinct. +1 point for the top of the food chain!
Woohoo, we destroyed an entire food chain and countless ecosystems, hooray...
Amelia Bee Though it was causing more harm to the local food chain and ecosystems than we were.
the Locust had been living in that ecosystem for thousands and thousands of years before we ever showed up and murdered them. it was not harmful to the Natural ecosystem because it was part of it.
Mathew Perkins so you helped with the extinction?
The Occasional HaHa Nah, +100 points.
American propaganda: "We defeated the locusts back in 1880!". Yes, American people defeated the locusts. American people also exterminated the T-rex because he was a pain in the ass, eating people and whatnot.
+bigballsgame Lol what? Do you have a brain in that skull of yours?
Humans never even got a chance to interact with dinosaurs, contradictory to TV shows like the flinstones. They were extinct long before we came along.
+bigballsgame ^this fucking guy
Yes, because he can use sarcasm which you can't detect.
what an idiot.....
This was awesome, I demand MinuteHistory now!
Amazing video
Pretty cool stuff!!
Awesome Video :)
These are the videos I really like.
Love ur show u r a good man in this life
why i watch minuteearth. he has good facts and his drawing skills are amazing. he also talks in a way that i dont go mad after five seconds.
A video I enjoyed because it gave interesting information
Minute earth is strange yet awesome
the way you say agriculture and magma are so great
+Minibuscus Eggriculture
Seeing a swarm of bugs twice the size of Colorado would make me be happy to live back in them olden days.
I believe that would be a wonderful idea! I think I'm going to do that!
Is this similar to what happened in New Mexico this year? All summer there were so many brown grasshoppers that you couldn't go a couple feet without stepping on a handful or having a flurry in your face.
Locusts have much more breeding options, thus enabling faster breeding. This creates a higher crowd of locusts, making even faster breeding, creating swarms.
Good. Another science channel I have to subscribe to. I already have about 20. Just wonderful...
I love your videos they remind me of a draw my life
I love the outro track.... just love it... can someone tell me what it is?
I love the way he says agriculture! :)
any ecosystem is impacted when something goes extinct or not present to form a needed event for them to change. there could have been seeds that could not start to grow without the assistance of these locusts to crack open the shell similar to a wildfire for pine trees.there may have also been a type of weed that was being controlled by them eating it when they went into their form of full locust. even with the extinction they could have been eaten instead of killing them, insects give more nutrition per mass than the animals they were farming the food for.
I don't know about you, but I'm kind of against farming evil, plant-destroying, swarming, buff grasshoppers who have a tendency to consume buildings.
But that's just my opinion.
They're not extinct: they're just grasshoppers instead of locusts
Mudaquil the great
evil is only when thought is predetermined event, they are just eating food. plus they could help they ecosystem better then most of the buildings they could eat.
The extinction of a species can be good or bad depending on the perspective. Without the extinction of the dinosaurs, mammals never would have risen up. Also, as blangoog pointed out, they're not extinct; they just turned into grasshoppers.
borderlandsgamer9001
yup, i seen that.
I concur with your statement good sir!
YES!
Thats so awesome
The drawn minute physics is a lot better then when it is done on the computer and animated
You should make more videos
This chanle has come so far...👍
can you do something about the dust bowl, you know that place and time during the war
Why do these videos always have awesome music lol
That's awesome
locusts: eat all the crops
Farmers: *h a b i t a t d e s t r u c t i o n a c t i v a t e d*
Good vid
Grasshoppers are like a very fissile elements then, get a bunch of it together, and they transform and wreak havoc.
awesome
Yes
Wrong flag for Canada
Canada was a British Colony at the time.
I freak out whenever I see a single bee swarms around me. Granted Locusts aren't as scary as bees, but if I saw them in state-sized swarms, many a brick would definately have been shat
Couldn't agree more.
minutephysics is the channel that you may be talking about, this is minuteearth, by the same guy, but different subjects
Yes, crickets are much smaller, plus a bunch of other stuff that I don't feel like looking up at the moment.
good video
Henry you are awesome! please continue make making videos like this to expand the knowledge of mankind
I know just how you feel. It's so amazing to know we have that kind of influence but also a little bit scary.
We needed the villager with his golden bug-net!
Can you do a video about those bug that come out of the ground every 13 years or so?
I love how you use the Union Jack for Canada because it was in the 1800's
because as a singular grasshopper, they don't go outside of their habitat. But as locusts, they can spread far and wide.
Interesting!