USDA forecasts our current plagues may be followed by hopping insects
Alex Wild writes at his blog, Myrmecos
With plumes of crude oil destroying the Gulf of Mexico, tensions rising in the middle east, a severe hurricane season reving up in the Atlantic, and the earth opening up and just plain swallowing parts of Guatemala City whole, what else could possibly go wrong?
Yes, a plague, of grasshoppers (locusts are short-horned grasshoppers). Next?
June 3, 2010 Posted by baptistplanet | Science | BP oil spill, grasshoppers, locusts, plague | Comments Off on USDA forecasts our current plagues may be followed by hopping insects
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