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'Biblical' insect swarms spur Oregon push to fight pests (End Is Nigh community)

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https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireSt...s-85740304

EXCERPTS: . . . They’re not hard to spot. The insects, which can grow larger than 2 inches (5 centimeters), blot the asphalt.

Mormon crickets are not new to Oregon. Native to western North America, their name dates back to the 1800s, when they ruined the fields of Mormon settlers in Utah. But amidst drought and warming temperatures — conditions favored by the insects — outbreaks across the West have worsened.

The Oregon Legislature last year allocated $5 million to assess the problem and set up a Mormon cricket and grasshopper “suppression” program. An additional $1.2 million for the program was approved earlier this month.

It’s part of a larger effort by state and federal authorities in the U.S. West to deal with an explosion of grasshoppers and Mormon crickets that has hit from Montana to Nevada. But some environmental groups oppose the programs, which rely on the aerial spraying of pesticides across large swaths of land.

[...] In 2017, Arlington saw its largest Mormon cricket outbreak since the 1940s. The roads were “greasy” with the squashed entrails of the huge insects, which damaged nearby wheat crops.

Rancher Skye Krebs said the outbreaks have been truly biblical. “On the highways, once you get them killed, then the rest of them come,” he explained. Mormon crickets are cannibalistic and will feast on each other, dead or alive, if not satiated with protein.

The insects, which are not true crickets but shield-backed katydids, are flightless. But they can travel at least a quarter of a mile in a day, according to Maley.

[...] Oregon’s new program is geared toward private landowners. But the federal government owns more than half of Oregon’s total land, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture has its own program for outbreaks on Western public land... (MORE - missing details)

Mormon crickets swarming on road ... https://youtu.be/Kro8Wv1ciuo

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/Kro8Wv1ciuo

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This is the end of the world - there are Mormon crickets everywhere ... https://youtu.be/dekVuV8yqVQ

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/dekVuV8yqVQ
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Mormon crickets !!!!

Mormons will convert anyone and anything!

The reason they are in Oregon is that they are missionaries who've heard (their ears are on their knees!) how godless Oregon is.

The crickets are all wearing little white shirts and ties, as they chirp about the Book of Mormon.

(Good luck with MR, crickets. He's going to be a tough one.)
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