Marlin, they are easy to spot if they come into your area. They wear white shirts and ties, ride bicycles, and travels in pairs.
>From: "Marlin Halverson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>Interesting. I hope these katydids don't come here!
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> Mormon Plague
> Millions of ravenous Mormon Crickets, moving like an ancient plague, are on the march across vast swaths of the U.S. West. The insects travel in hordes that can measure 1 mile wide and 3 miles deep. 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. So far Utah has been hardest-hit with $25 million in damage in the worse cricket infestation in 60 years. More info on the Mormon cricket may be found online at http://www.sdvc.uwyo.edu/grasshopper/ansi.htm
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