SA must have done something terrible to bring on a plague of Biblical proportions...
The rural area I live in is about 50 miles north and west of SA-it is cricket season here, too-but there are no swarms of them-I shopped at the grocery store in the county seat on my way home from a jobsite in the next county-I didn’t see more than the usual number of crickets for this time of year at that jobsite or in town-and there are just enough of them here at my place to get inside and provide amusement for my cats when they find one...