Tag: Grasshopper
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Gobble, gobble, crunch: How some farmers have turned to birds to combat the ‘hopperpocalypse’
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save CAÑON CITY • Hundreds of grasshoppers flutter through the air as Matt Koster wades through his neighbor’s decimated hay field. Passing through the flattened grass and fog of pests, he reaches his own field. The clouds of insatiable insects seem to dissipate, and the rows…
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‘Hopperpocalypse: Colorado farmers say this year’s grasshopper infestation the worst in generations
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save In the late 1930s, during the depths of The Great Depression and on the eve of a second world war, Colorado faced off against a domestic invader whose hordes reached biblical proportions. The scenes conjured up by news reports and legend are equal parts monster…