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How many locusts were in the biggest swarm ever recorded?
12.5 trillion
locusts
12,500,000,000,000 exactly, give or take
Albert's swarm, 1875: 12.5 trillion Rocky Mountain locusts — half a million tonnes of insect. The species went extinct 27 years later.SOURCEGuinness World Records
Scale check: 12.5 trillion is roughly seconds in 320,000 years.
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