+OverSword Posted June 2, 2014 #1 Share Posted June 2, 2014 From the article: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Weather officials in Albuquerque say a mysterious presence that showed up on its radar the last few nights has turned out to be of the insect variety. The National Weather Service says a swarm of grasshoppers were detected over Albuquerque’s West Mesa for the fourth night in a row on Friday. Meteorologist Chuck Jones says the swarm got caught up in winds heading southwest and is being carried as high as 1,000 feet. read it here 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldorado Posted June 2, 2014 #2 Share Posted June 2, 2014 Spacehoppers! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PlanB Posted June 2, 2014 #3 Share Posted June 2, 2014 This is probably why the interstate sales of grasshoppers are prohibited. The things you find out when you have pet reptiles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sundew Posted June 4, 2014 #4 Share Posted June 4, 2014 This is probably why the interstate sales of grasshoppers are prohibited. The things you find out when you have pet reptiles. There are some tropical roaches that you can use, though grasshoppers would be a lot less objectionable to the average person, myself included. Most people just buy crickets and mealworms, depending on the reptile. We have lubber grasshoppers locally, get about 4-5" long, heavily bodied and don't fly, but they feed on toxic plants like Crinum lilies and not much bothers them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent Trinity Posted June 4, 2014 #5 Share Posted June 4, 2014 The power of nature yet again produces wondrous moments. Fortunately here in England the biggest 'bugs' we have to worry about are Bumble Bees and 'Daddy Long Legs' lol, a few others too but that is about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paperdyer Posted June 4, 2014 #6 Share Posted June 4, 2014 Here come the Locusts! Next plague. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
:PsYKoTiC:BeHAvIoR: Posted June 4, 2014 #7 Share Posted June 4, 2014 I'm kind of curious on how big an object has to be for radar to pick up? Sounds like these swarms had to be huge and dense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.United_Nations Posted June 4, 2014 #8 Share Posted June 4, 2014 The power of nature yet again produces wondrous moments. Fortunately here in England the biggest 'bugs' we have to worry about are Bumble Bees and 'Daddy Long Legs' lol, a few others too but that is about it. and cockroaches and stag Beetles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mickeymudge Posted June 5, 2014 #9 Share Posted June 5, 2014 Well I guess we learned that insects aren't invisible to radar. Who knew? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mickeymudge Posted June 5, 2014 #10 Share Posted June 5, 2014 I'm kind of curious on how big an object has to be for radar to pick up? Sounds like these swarms had to be huge and dense. Well a swarm can be pretty large right? It's the same thing when we have multiple fighters from, lets say Russia, coming into our air space, but they are flying very close together. The radar sees them as ONE blip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rei4ever Posted August 4, 2014 #11 Share Posted August 4, 2014 So this leads to flight mh370 flight?!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.United_Nations Posted August 26, 2014 #12 Share Posted August 26, 2014 So this leads to flight mh370 flight?!? .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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