Mega Disasters-Individually the locust is little more than a hungry grass-hopper. But get them together in a swarm and youve got yourself one of the most destructive and dreaded life forms on Earth.The largest swarm in recorded history plagued American pioneers when an 1800 mile long 110 mile wide cloud of insects ate their way through the heartland and blocked the sun for five days. The result: famine starvation and a socioeconomic collapse that took decades to recover from.   ... >>