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.
ISWYDT...............
Leave it toTexans to gripe about extra protein, there are lots of starving people trying to cross the border..........
Next they are going to have to open a Chick fil A to take care of the chicken invasion.
Crickets are animals
Also for scorpions, whose main diet is crickets
what’;s the old sayin? “What;s good fer the crickets is good for the... something or other”?
What’s good for the crickets is good for the wickets (unless they’re sticky) /s
lol- natural cyclical global warming makes everything sticky
Weather? I’ve seen them so bad in Dallas, TX that you tires would slide all over the street. They would use the fire department to hose down streets in order to drive.
This is nothing new in SA. Happens every year, just some years worse than others. Plus those damned American Cockroaches... or Texas-sized roaches. Yuck.
If those crickets were actually edible a lot of Mexicans, Chinese and Japanese would (literally!) swarm in and grab them all to be processed into food.
Buy stock in Raid and Ortho, Quick!!!!
Why? They are edible!
But Ziploc freezer bags!!!...........
Roasted they are like crunchy cheese puffs.........
Thus confirming the little known fact, that all the insects in the world weigh five times more than all of the human beings.
It’s just like liberals who leave their destroyed former state and infest the next one.
I was stationed at Ft Sam Houston TX which is actually in San Antonio, in 1973. It was swarming with crickets even then. At night I’d walk down the sidewalks to the sounds of crickets being squashed. The fire ants built their mounds right along the sidewalks because they knew that every night they got free meals. There were even swarms of crickets that lived in the ceilings of the barracks. Lift a ceiling panel and you’d get a bunch of crickets falling out.
I always figured that the lizard population had been dramatically reduced.
We had an infestation of frogs one year so bad that the smell would make you gag from driving over the dead bodies.........
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.
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Native San Antonian here. First I’ve heard of this “plague”.
I hear crickets from the corrupt news media whenever the democrats get caught up in another criminal scandal.
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