Starts @ 1:15 marker :popcorn - Fair Use - Looks like food prices are going to sky rise even more … farmers are not only dealing with drought but their land is now infested with Grasshoppers "They're Everywhere" - Megadrought Sparks Grasshopper Plague In Western US Zerohedge Tyler Durden June 27, 2021 By now, it's become quite evident that the western half of the U.S. is facing one of the worst megadroughts in decades. We've spoken about fallow land and drying up reservoirs, but the question remains what happens next? Well, it's not great, and it's straight out of the playbook from the 1930s Great Depression when the same parts of the U.S. were transformed into a desert, triggering a grasshopper plague. A.P. News said federal agriculture officials are set to launch one of the largest grasshopper-killing campaigns in three decades amid an outbreak. The insects belong to the suborder Caelifera family and are probably the most ancient living group of chewing herbivorous insects. These creatures survive and multiply rapidly in drought or very dry conditions and will decimate crops. Before we dive further into the grasshopper plague, the latest data from the U.S. Drought Monitor shows much of the western half of the U.S. is in some form of drought. Some places are more severe than others - but many of these lands produce an immense amount of farm goods. So back to insect plague where A.P. spoke with a resident Frank Wiederrick of central Montana's Phillips County, who said grasshoppers are springing up on his ranch. "They're everywhere," Wiederrick said. "Drought and grasshoppers go together and they are cleaning us out." If extreme drought conditions continue in parts of the U.S., harvests this year could be severely impacted. The United States Department of Agriculture has published a map of the grasshoppers spreading across arid regions of the western half of the U.S. Agriculture officials had seen this year's infestation coming after a 2020 survey found dense concentrations of adult grasshoppers across about 55,000 square miles (141 ,000 square kilometers) in the West. A 2021 grasshopper "hazard map" shows densities of at least 15 insects per square yard (meter) in large areas of Montana, Wyoming, and Oregon and portions of Idaho, Arizona, Colorado, and Nebraska. -A.P. - Fair Use - We've had unreasonably mild temps in the deep South. Our Spring and so far Summer temps have been amazingly pleasant. Again been hovering in the high 90's for a few days! 106, 107 the last two days. Expected 111 tomorrow! TR It has become a pattern of raining several times a day in New Orleans and with each rain it becomes hotter and steamier. Miserable for humans, plants are thriving! Do you have a pool or can you go to the beach? Or is it restricted for vaxx people only? No pool. TR Yep, I was going to buy a cool gadget called a “Bug-A-Salt” that shoots flies, wasps, and grasshoppers with a puff of salt, but it takes at least<b> 10 shots</b> to kill the grasshoppers per the video I downloaded to watch … :mdrmdr: … oh well, saved myself 40 bucks, but what entertainment :mdrmdr: :mdrmdr: Might I suggest sitting in the frig :mdrmdr: :mdrmdr: — no, not a good idea :unsure: — ok then sit in the sprinklers all day! :wacko: We also have the heat and that combined with the humidity is miserable … Thanking the Lord for a great AC in both the house and car and at the hospital….. :dieu: :mdrmdr: :mdrmdr: Very funny! Well … my dog takes care of any flies that come indoors … he patiently waits and then jumps up high and gets them in mid air and does one chew and then spits them out. I find them all dead on the hardwood floors. :mdrmdr:
