Explosive, ‘truly biblical’ swarms of cannibalistic insects ravage crops out West

Accuweather ^ | 6/28/22

[Getready]

Katydids are edible. Feed ‘dem to the dems. at their next convention.

[Alas Babylon!]

It’s the magic underwear. Very hard to see under the exoskeleton.

[Glad2bnuts]

Me and the spouse just took a ten day trip through Oregon, Idaho, Nevada, and Arizona. No Mormon crickets in Arizona, but the other 3 states highways are smeared with carcasses and guts of the things. There were so many at times, that you could feel them under the tires. I had to slow down, as it felt slippery at many times.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

“A swarm can skeletonize a cow in under a minute.”

[Durus]

True American hero and genius.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

LOL!

[EBH]

Just ewe...although they do say they make roads feel ‘greasey’

[gnarledmaw]

Poultry shortage.

[Daffynition]

Imposters swarming everywhere!

[caww]

'Drought conditions' encourage Mormon cricket outbreaks......

[rlmorel]

They need to do something about water in the southwest. California I could give a crap about (with apologies to our conservative brethren behind enemy lines) but Arizona and Texas could use help.

I was listening to the candidate from Arizona for the Senate, Jim Lamon, who has 30 years of experience of getting things done in the Energy Sector, and I loved hearing him talk about building a huge underground water pipeline from the Mississippi all the way to the Arizona, because California is taking all the water and they are going to lose 8% of their water supply.

I kind of like his mindset-if you set up the intakes of the pipe at the Mississippi right before it empties into the Gulf, you aren’t robbing anyone of water-that water was going to disappear into the ocean anyway. He was talking of leveraging Elon Musk’s “The Boring Company”.