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OCUSTS, ALSO KNOWN AS GRASSHOP- pers, can be a modern day
“plague” just as they were thou- sands of years ago in Moses’ time. An adult grasshopper can eat
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from 30 to 250 percent of its body weight in plants each day. Even at the high end, a single insect doesn’t do much damage — but who sees just one? Grasshoppers cause about $1.5 billion in damage to grazing lands each year just in the U.S. When grasshoppers swarm, they can completely defoliate a landscape and cost billions of dollars in dam- age to food crops worldwide. Producers need to determine a
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to how severe grasshoppers might become later in the season. Warm temperatures coupled with little rainfall are conducive to grasshop- per development, while cooler, wet- ter conditions tend to inhibit an outbreak.
68 The Cattleman April 2016
thecattlemanmagazine.com
Locusts — A Plague
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