grasshoppers

Swarm of grasshoppers weighing 30 TONS invaded Las Vegas on one night in 2019, radar data show

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Las Vegas is one of the brightest-lit cities in the US that attracts people from around the world, but the artificial lights also lured 46 million grasshoppers in one summer night in 2019. A new study analyzed the invasion using radar data, finding that artificial light awakened the rather idle insects and did so in … Read more

Diseased Texan man survived on grasshoppers 1,000 years ago

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A man who lived in America about 1,000 years ago was forced to live on grasshoppers after contracting a tropical disease that made his colon swell up to six times its normal size. US researchers studied the microscopic gut contents of the now mummified man, buried in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands of Texas, US.  They found the … Read more