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Did the gulls actually prevent major destruction of the Mormon crops? ... "The 
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will not eat. ... since 1848 when hordes of the insect started eating the early 
Mormon settlers' much-needed crops. ... bird and the ravenous cricket has taken 
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leaders put up a monument and called it a miracle...what do you think? ... Farmer 
Elmer Skousen: "Please oh Lord, deliver us from these evil crickets you sent to ... 
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Day). ... A mild winter and thaw permitted plowing in early 1848, making it 
possible to ... These insects, later dubbed "Mormon crickets," were as large as a 
man's thumb. ... the indigenous California gull became the Utah state bird, and in 
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Question: Mormons say divine intervention sent these birds to stop a cricket infestation in 1848
Answer: Seagulls