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Topic: GRASSHOPPERS INVADE U.S. WEST - Plague Alert
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Kindgo
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Luke 21:11 ..."and there will be great earthquakes, and in various places plagues and famines; and there will be terrors and great signs from heaven."
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...ricket_plague_1
Mormon Crickets Chew Through Idaho
Sat Jun 7,11:14 PM ET Add U.S. National - AP to My Yahoo!
BOISE, Idaho - Mormon crickets are chewing their way through southwestern Idaho at an alarming rate, devouring crops and creating road hazards in what locals say is the worst outbreak since World War II.
The Boise County Commission has already declared a disaster and the state has posted warning signs on roads for the pests. Crickets smashed by cars on the road surface create a mush slicker than black ice.
"Their guts and stuff, they just get mashed," said Mike Cooper, a state Department of Agriculture official who persuaded the state last week to authorize $250,000 in cricket control measures.
The insects got their name after invading the fields of Mormon settlers in Utah in 1848. They're not actually crickets — rather a species of shieldbacked katydid that belong to a grasshopper family.
Their voracious appetites take in anything. At a density of just one cricket per square yard, they can consume 38 pounds of forage per acre as they pass through an area. They will even eat each other.
Once the crickets are on the move, their mobility makes them harder to kill, because they can travel a mile in a day and up to 50 miles in a season.
At the end of their 60- to 90-day life cycle, they lay eggs that incubate through the winter, then hatch in the spring.
"Right now they're just kind of grazing. In two weeks, they'll just start gorging, and they'll devastate anything that's green," said Fawn Carey, disaster services coordinator for Boise County in Horseshoe Bend.
Locals say the infestation rivals one that came just before World War II. The outbreak led to tales of crickets devouring gardens in downtown Boise, and homeowners putting sheet metal around their yards to try to keep the crickets out.
Mormon crickets have also invaded northeast Nevada this year, prompting a disaster declaration in Elko County.
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God bless,
Kindgo
Inside the will of God there is no failure. Outside the will of God there is no success.
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grace case
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The "Grasshoppers" that are a plauge in Idaho, are actually "Mormon Crickets."
But that's nothing new....as Mormon PESTS have been pestering the west for decades!
But theses PESTS look different than regular grasshoppers....the pests that have really plauged Idaho, nevada, (AND Utah) have white shirts and wear ties, and carry around little back packs, with black name badges.
THEY are the scourge of the earth! ha ha ha! ![[biglaugha]](graemlins/biglaugha.gif)
But like all pests, they will eventually be eradicated.
Jesus is coming...be ready! ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
![[Cross]](graemlins/cross.gif)
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In Christ's love and glorious Grace,
Mark
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Kindgo
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http://www.drudgereport.com/flash1.htm
Grasshoppers invade U.S. West
FRI Jun 13 2003 20:50:27 ET
San Francisco (dpa) - Huge swarms of hungry grasshoppers have invaded the western United States, prompting agricultural experts to warn of damage unparalleled in decades.
The plague has hit the states of Nevada, Utah and Idaho particularly hard and shows no sign of abating.
``This is bigger then anything we've seen in a long time,'' said expert Mike Cooper, quoted in ``The Idaho Statesman''.
Cooper cited records showing the current swarms to be the largest since World War II. Officials in Idaho have posted warning signs near highways warning of slippery conditions if the crickets swarm on the road.
In Utah, authorities predict that 2.5 million hectares could be devoured by the invading swarms. Authorities are hoping to use insecticide to prevent the situation's getting out of hand, but environmental groups have filed four law suits hoping to block the spraying.
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Kindgo
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