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    Has anyone experienced these things in the last few days? Swarms of these things and I mean ALL over Vegas. Never seen anything like it.

  2. #2
    How on kew, and go for the ride of your life.

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    So I see this story made the national news this evening. Apparently due to excessive rainfall this spring, the grasshopper population has exploded and they are currently migrating north through Las Vegas. I don't know I never saw one until 2 days ago. Now there are swarms all over.

    So after I parked my car this evening, I was looking at a swarm of these things outside my building. They appear to be attracted to light. They look just like a grasshopper, but I never saw a grasshopper fly before. And I am not quite sure these things are actually flying. I think maybe they can jump and extraordinary distance up in the air, jumping towards the elevated lights, and then just sort of flutter around, slowing dropping back to earth, but it gives the appearance that they are flying like moths. I don't know. But they are really annoying. They literally jump on you and you have to brush them off. Hopefully they will get to where they are going soon and be gone.

  4. #4
    If they’re migrating north through Las Vegas....where dafaq they from? These better not be no damn rapist millennial Mexican grasshoppers.....


    I did experience them earlier today (yesterday?) though. Got outta my car and a bush exploded with them flying and jumping all over. I ran like a little bitch because I hate them fucks
    #FreeTyde

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    Yes, they everywhere, but the good thing is they are nice hoppers, not the nasty bitches.
    Expected to all be gone in 10 days

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    Originally Posted by kewlJ View Post

    So after I parked my car this evening,
    so your mommy makes you park the car after she drives you?

  7. #7
    Originally Posted by AxelWolf View Post
    Originally Posted by kewlJ View Post

    So after I parked my car this evening,
    so your mommy makes you park the car after she drives you?
    Jealous?

    Mom as my driver lasted a few weeks after my partner passed. There was some thought to teaching her some very basic VP play, filling some of the role of my partner, but Mom really wasn't cut out for that. And without that, which would have benefited her, I wasn't going to have her waste her time driving me. Although I love that she was willing and even wanted to do so.

    And while you and others make fun of the "driver" thing, I can't tell you what a benefit a driver is or was to a hit-and-run short, session player in Vegas. And my late partner had it down to perfection. I would walk out the door and within 5 seconds be in the car on the way to the next destination. By the time I recorded the details of my play from the session just ended, we were pulling up to a new destination. As you know Axel, in this business time IS money and having a driver saved me considerable time, not to mention, just pretty nice perk during hot summer days.
    Last edited by kewlJ; 07-27-2019 at 07:25 PM.

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    So getting back to this grasshopper thing. Last night on the local channel 13 news, during the weather they put up the radar. Usually green represents rain and moisture. Well there were some dark green areas over Vegas and they said this dark green represented swarms of grasshoppers. This is just a really weird thing.

    So this morning, I noticed quite a few dead grasshoppers in the parking lot. Not squished like someone stepped on them or ran over them, just dead. I have no idea, but was wondering if the humidity moving out in the last 12 hours and temperatures soaring towards 110, did they overheat and just burn up or something? Again, this is just really weird.

    be interesting to see if this hot, dry weather returning is key to them moving on?

  9. #9
    This is a prep year. In 2021 the cicadas will be back for their once-every-17-year invasion. Enjoy these experiences that nature offers us. They devour everything in their path that is green. I was in Laughlin in 2004 for the last one and it was something to behold. Plus you can eat grasshoppers, fried is best. They sell them on the streets as treats all over Malaysia and some of the other poorer parts of Asia. But save the chocolate covered ones for dessert.

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    Originally Posted by kewlJ View Post
    So getting back to this grasshopper thing. Last night on the local channel 13 news, during the weather they put up the radar. Usually green represents rain and moisture. Well there were some dark green areas over Vegas and they said this dark green represented swarms of grasshoppers. This is just a really weird thing.

    So this morning, I noticed quite a few dead grasshoppers in the parking lot. Not squished like someone stepped on them or ran over them, just dead. I have no idea, but was wondering if the humidity moving out in the last 12 hours and temperatures soaring towards 110, did they overheat and just burn up or something? Again, this is just really weird.

    be interesting to see if this hot, dry weather returning is key to them moving on?
    I didn't see many when I arrived in town, until I walked by the backside of Binion's this morning. Most were dead. I'm wondering if they like the drainage tunnels under the city. I'd love to see if they headed down there to avoid the heat.

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    Ok, so my theory that these critters would move on with the extreme heat appears to be wrong. 111 yesterday and Today and they are still here, although in somewhat lesser numbers than last week. And the news says they will be here another couple weeks. Geez, last week on a 50 foot walk from my building to my car I had so many of these grasshoppers hopping on me that I had to brush them off and spit them out...literally.

    So I have a new theory and that is that while I usually see these things on pavement and parking lots, there is usually grass and shrubs nearby. My parking lot is surrounded by grass and shrubs. So that is why Redietz didn't see as many downtown in the Fremont area. Although there are reports of swarms on the strip, so I don't know.

    For those not in Vegas, wondering just what we are talking about, these things look like miniature grasshoppers. Back in the Philly suburbs area, grasshoppers were dark brown and about 2 inches and jumped. These things are about half that size3/4 of an inch to an inch. They are very light brown or tan AND have a thin set of wings. Again, I don't think these wings actually allow them to fly as per reports. I thing they jump a really long distance and these wings flutter and allow them to flutter around a bit before eventually falling back to earth.

    So as I said, there are less than last week, unless you are counting all the dead ones. Lots of dead bug carcasses, especially on the pavement and parking lots. Most aren't squishes like they have been stepped on though, which leads me to believe they are just dying. I think they are over-heating and dehydrating on the pavement. Literally burning up.

    I do find this phenomenon interesting.

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  13. #13
    Don't confuse them with crickets. Those are black and most do not fly.

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    M had a fair amount in front of the casino this morning -- dead ones. I haven't run into a lively swarm yet...maybe tonight.

  15. #15
    Originally Posted by kewlJ View Post
    Ok, so my theory that these critters would move on with the extreme heat appears to be wrong. 111 yesterday and Today and they are still here, although in somewhat lesser numbers than last week. And the news says they will be here another couple weeks. Geez, last week on a 50 foot walk from my building to my car I had so many of these grasshoppers hopping on me that I had to brush them off and spit them out...literally.

    So I have a new theory and that is that while I usually see these things on pavement and parking lots, there is usually grass and shrubs nearby. My parking lot is surrounded by grass and shrubs. So that is why Redietz didn't see as many downtown in the Fremont area. Although there are reports of swarms on the strip, so I don't know.

    For those not in Vegas, wondering just what we are talking about, these things look like miniature grasshoppers. Back in the Philly suburbs area, grasshoppers were dark brown and about 2 inches and jumped. These things are about half that size3/4 of an inch to an inch. They are very light brown or tan AND have a thin set of wings. Again, I don't think these wings actually allow them to fly as per reports. I thing they jump a really long distance and these wings flutter and allow them to flutter around a bit before eventually falling back to earth.

    So as I said, there are less than last week, unless you are counting all the dead ones. Lots of dead bug carcasses, especially on the pavement and parking lots. Most aren't squishes like they have been stepped on though, which leads me to believe they are just dying. I think they are over-heating and dehydrating on the pavement. Literally burning up.

    I do find this phenomenon interesting.

    Ummm, kewlj -- they can fly. I'm on the eighth floor of the Gold Coast, and the little buggers are on the window sill.

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    Thank you for this link jbjb. After reading this and further research, I have decided that these things are indeed Locusts. If you read about the gregarious phase of Locusts, this is exactly what is happening here...the hyper activity, the swarming. If you look at photos of the specific species of Locust called the Desert Locust, this is exactly what these critters look like.

    I am wondering why no one else, none of the bug experts have picked up on this? Is it because Locust aren't "due" THIS year? I think for whatever reason, that cycle has changed. Probably due to the excessive rainfall this year. So instead, someone labeled them "flying grasshoppers" and the local and now national news has run with it.
    Last edited by kewlJ; 07-29-2019 at 07:38 PM.

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    Originally Posted by Midwest Player View Post
    They are not locusts. They are grasshoppers.
    https://www.inverse.com/article/5812...d-grasshoppers
    Well based on the "all locusts are grasshopper" quote in the article, I guess that would be correct. But I think these things are what is more commonly referred to as "Locust", but they aren't calling them Locust" because it is not the "year for Locusts".

    At any rate....I AM STICKING with Locust!

    What I know as a grasshopper is 2 inches long, dark brown and hops a few feet in the grass. These things are 3/4 of an inch, light brown to tan, have wings, fly and swarm (mostly on the pavement, or parking lot). All characteristics of Locust.

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    Ok, so further research reveals these critters to be...

    ...get ready for it...

    GRASSHOPPERS!

    The pallid winged grasshopper to be exact. But a very close relative to what is commonly known as a Locust. And certainly very different from what I, and I suspect most people know to be and think of when someone says "grasshopper".

    I always appreciate the opportunity to learn and experience new things, and I do find this weird "invasion" interesting to a certain degree, but the novelty has now worn off for me. I'll be glad to never see another and will be doing no further research.

  20. #20
    IDGAF what those bastards are, I'm this close to buying a flamethrower and going HAM on them.
    #FreeTyde

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