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.
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