Friday, June 03, 2005
Quick, Call Moses!
There is a plague afoot.
Mormon crickets have begun their spring assault in the Reno area, marching into a new subdivision in Spanish Springs, north of Sparks. It's the sixth straight year of infestation. Last year, the crickets infested some 12 million acres of Nevada and experts predict this summer's infestation will equal that or exceed it."What's so bad about a few crickets?" you ask. Consider
Instead, Dixon began using a leaf-blower to blast the insects off the siding of his house.I wonder what histoy would look like if Pharoah had had leaf blowers?
"It was unbelievable, just amazing,"Dixon told the Reno Gazette-Journal. "You couldn't even see the color of the wall there were so many."
