How much can a large swarm of locusts eat in a day?

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They can eat 80,000 tons of grain and other vegetation - per day!

They can jump 2.3', which would be like a human jumping 60'!

The largest swarm ever recorded was in 1874, in California. Entomologists record the swarm covering 198,000 sq. miles, and containing an estimated 12.5 Trillion locusts!