Still Waters Posted July 4, 2021 #1 Share Posted July 4, 2021 They’re arriving in swarms so dense it can appear the earth is moving. They’re covering roads and fields, pelting ATV riders, and steadily devouring grains and grass to the bedevilment of farmers and ranchers. A massive population of grasshoppers is proliferating in the sweltering American west, where a deep drought has made for ideal conditions for grasshopper eggs to hatch and survive into adulthood. “I can only describe grasshoppers in expletives,” said Richard Nicholson, a cattle rancher in Fort Klamath, a small community in southern Oregon, who once recalled seeing grasshopper bands eat 1,000 acres a day and cover the ground like snow. The insects cause innumerable headaches for farmers and ranchers, competing with cattle for tough-to-find wild forage and costing tens of thousands of dollars in lost crops and associated costs. “They are a scourge of the Earth … They just destroy the land, destroy the crops. They are just a bad, bad predator.” https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/04/grasshopper-swarms-us-west-drought 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHaYap Posted July 4, 2021 #2 Share Posted July 4, 2021 40 minutes ago, Still Waters said: predator ?? ~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandy333 Posted July 4, 2021 #3 Share Posted July 4, 2021 10 hours ago, Still Waters said: They’re arriving in swarms so dense it can appear the earth is moving. They’re covering roads and fields, pelting ATV riders, and steadily devouring grains and grass to the bedevilment of farmers and ranchers. A massive population of grasshoppers is proliferating in the sweltering American west, where a deep drought has made for ideal conditions for grasshopper eggs to hatch and survive into adulthood. “I can only describe grasshoppers in expletives,” said Richard Nicholson, a cattle rancher in Fort Klamath, a small community in southern Oregon, who once recalled seeing grasshopper bands eat 1,000 acres a day and cover the ground like snow. The insects cause innumerable headaches for farmers and ranchers, competing with cattle for tough-to-find wild forage and costing tens of thousands of dollars in lost crops and associated costs. “They are a scourge of the Earth … They just destroy the land, destroy the crops. They are just a bad, bad predator.” https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/04/grasshopper-swarms-us-west-drought They can't tell me anything about @#$%^&* grasshoppers and the devastation they cause. In another part of the State I'm in every spring and summer we had swarms of them. That meant no garden and no rosebushes unless I kept them sprayed. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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