SCOUTING YESTERDAY | Weevil invasion recalls locust-darkened South Dakota skies
This week in South Dakota history: May 22-28
Another plague greeted South Dakota farmers following an otherwise bountiful planting season they’d been enjoying a half century ago.
But the weevil infestation in the state’s southeast quadrant that left alfalfa fields barren, according to the May 26, 1976, edition of The Daily Republic, was no comparison to a plague that blanketed the Midwest a century earlier with swarms so immense they could block out the sun.
