Posted on 10/15/2019 11:03:15 AM PDT by Red Badger
Oct. 11 (UPI) -- Experts said an influx of crickets that some San Antonio residents have called a "plague" resulted from "perfect" weather conditions that allowed the insects to thrive this year.
Residents said they first started noticing huge swarms of crickets gathering Tuesday in locations including the University of Texas at San Antonio.
One man tweeted a video of himself eating a fistful of crickets with a caption parodying a letter from someone involved in a disaster.
"Dearest Mother," user @MeepMeepNation tweeted. "We are approaching the third day of the cricket plague. What sanity remains is quickly being whittled away. Starving students are now accepting these vile creatures as a source of sustenance. I fear cannibalism is next."
Molly Keck, an entomologist with the Texas A&M Agrilife Extension Service, said the weather is to blame for the plentiful insects.
"It's technically not an invasion because they didn't come from anywhere, right. We just have the perfect three conditions that kind of have to happen consecutively for them to do just really, really well this year," she told Accuweather.
She said the conditions that contributed to the cricket explosion were a dry summer, late rains and an influx of cool weather.
"We had the perfect storm of the perfect conditions to make these cricket populations explode," Keck said.
Experts said the cricket invasion could last for a few more weeks.
Global cricketing. Trump’s fault
Happens alot down there
I remember seeing it in 1969 while down for basic training at Lackland AFB.
I was amazed the sidewalk was black with them swarming across the cement.
We’ve had two bad cricket infestations in NE Oklahoma-Arkansas in the last 40 years. One in 1979, and one around 2005. The rest of the time they were just nuisances.
Then the year after, came a blister bug infestation.
Too hot — we’re gonna die.
Too cold — we’re gonna die.
“perfect” weather conditions — the crickets are gonna get us.
Good fishing bait...........
Texas should let the Israelites go already. I tell you, it’s only going to get worse . . .
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So cyclical global wamrign is now considered ‘perfect’ by the left? Then what are they complaining about?
what’;s the old sayin? “What;s good fer the crickets is good for the... something or other”?
Normal weather blamed for normal insects.
All because Donald Trump was elected.
I remember 2005 as it happened in Missouri too. We were on a day trip and stopped at a brightly lit gas station on a desolate road. Everything was covered. Walking in and out of the store, it was crunch, crunch, crunch.
We’re about due for a cicada year aren’t we? Deafening summer days. Our first year back here(second time moving here), was one of the heat waves and we were off grid in the woods. It’s a wonder we didn’t go mad. 108 degrees with cicadas screaming all day.
Need more lizards
Just like the year Buddy Holly got his start
Crickets are edible. In Mexico, as a food item, they are called “chilaquiles.: They go well with scrambled eggs and chicken...”chilaquiles con huveos revueltos.” When fileted they look like fritos in scramble eggs.
Free and abundant protein for the non animal eaters.
I remember finding a huge mantas and letting my son keep it in a terrarium. I would flip over the garbage cans and a bunch of crickets would jump out. We’d catch them and feed the big mantas. Then things froze around late November and I actually started to buy crickets at the pet store. Around late March the mantas died from old age.
Leave it toTexans to gripe about extra protein, there are lots of starving people trying to cross the border..........
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