Cricket Invasion
Residents and businesses in northeastern Nevada are battling an invasion of Mormon crickets that is blanketing the landscape. The infestation is sliming roadways and hampering transportation.
“Just to get patients into the hospital we had people out there with leaf blowers, with brooms, at one point we even had a tractor with a snowplow on it just to push the piles of crickets and move them on their way,” one resident told reporters. Mormon crickets are not true crickets but are instead short-winged katydids that resemble fat grasshoppers that cannot fly.
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