[A Formerly Proud Canadian]

Grasshopper inundation are not a,new thing. My father told me of an inundation of grasshoppers on the family farm in the first decade of the 1900s in Eastern Ontario. He said the geese were never so fat from eating grasshoppers. He also said that trains had problems stopping b/c the grasshoppers covered the tracks and acted like grease on the rails as they were squashed by the train wheels.

[Hot Tabasco]

Here in S.E. Michigan, Lake St. Clair has its annual fish fly hatch......trillions of them.

All the communities along the shore line are filled with them at night as they swarm towards street lights and store fronts.......

On a positive note, their numbers are an indication of how healthy the lake is........