{{short description|none}} [[File:7 Migratory locust Locusta migratoria.jpg|thumb|Large swarm of the migratory locust (''Locusta migratoria'') in Madagascar]] Locust swarms have been recorded throughout history.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/23/science/looking-back-at-the-days-of-the-locust.html |title=Looking Back at the Days of the Locust |website=The New York Times |date=23 April 2002 }}</ref> Those which have their own Wikipedia articles are listed here, but there are many more notable ones that have occurred. {| class="wikitable" !Swarm !Year !Location !Size !Type |- |Locust Plague of 1874 |1874 |United States | |Rocky Mountain locust |- |Albert's swarm |1875 |United States |3.5–12.5 trillion |Rocky Mountain locust |- |1915 Ottoman Syria locust infestation |1915 |Palestine, Lebanon, and Syria | | |- |2003–2005 Africa locust infestation |2003–05 |West Africa | | |- |2013 Madagascar locust infestation |2013 |Madagascar |billions |Migratory locust |- |January 2016 Argentine locust swarm |2016 |Argentina | | |- |2019–2022 locust infestation |2019 |Ethiopia, Kenya, Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia, Iran, India, and Pakistan | |Desert locust |- |}
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