Sunday, July 15, 2012

A plague of grasshoppers

Grasshoppers are moving across Texas eating up gardens, pastures and landscapes of every sort.  One farmer says the grasshoppers will “get on everything. They’ll eat black-eyed peas, tomatoes and peaches. They’ll strip sweet potatoes down to the ground. They’re not prejudiced; they’ll tear into everything.”


 The plague is the result of last year's drought plus the hot and dry summer. Being born in a fallow area simply means the grasshoppers move to a fertile area and eat their way through that area.



Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/07/13/156125/attack-of-the-grasshoppers-in.html#storylink=cpy


Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/07/13/156125/attack-of-the-grasshoppers-in.html#storylink=cpy


Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/07/13/156125/attack-of-the-grasshoppers-in.html#storylink=cpy
 

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