{"id":665973,"date":"2019-07-27T19:43:14","date_gmt":"2019-07-27T19:43:14","guid":{"rendered":" <br><div id=\"\"><p>Massive swarms of grasshoppers have surprisingly descended on the Las Vegas Strip this week, startling tourists and residents as they pass through town on their northbound migration.<\/p>\n<p>Videos posted on social media show swarms of t"},"modified":"2019-07-27T19:43:14","modified_gmt":"2019-07-27T19:43:14","slug":"is-this-end-time-grasshoppers-invade-las-vegas-strip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/07\/27\/is-this-end-time-grasshoppers-invade-las-vegas-strip\/","title":{"rendered":"Is This End Time? Grasshoppers Invade Las Vegas Strip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Massive swarms of grasshoppers have surprisingly descended on the Las Vegas Strip this week, startling tourists and residents as they pass through town on their northbound migration.<\/p>\n<p>Videos posted on social media show swarms of the bugs, called pallid-winged grasshoppers, converging on the bright neon lights of the Strip and sidewalks covered with the insects.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">holllly fuck check out the plague of grasshoppers my friend recorded in Las Vegas today!!!!!!!!!!!!! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cLiD9UpDZX\">pic.twitter.com\/cLiD9UpDZX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 cacti cooter capone (@hotdogfev) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hotdogfev\/status\/1154831855595601920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 26, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Nevada Department of Agriculture said the rare invasion was linked to an unseasonably wet winter and spring.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Knight, an entomologist at the Agriculture Department, said while the insects may freak out many, they are harmless and not a sign of the end of time.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_981317\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Grasshoppers.-Photo-shutterstock..jpg\"  class=\"wp-image-981317 lazyload\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"746\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-981317 lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Grasshoppers.-Photo-shutterstock..jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"746\"  \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grasshoppers. Photo: shutterstock<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThey don\u2019t carry any diseases. They don\u2019t bite. And they are not even one of the species that we consider a problem,\u201d Knight told reporters on Friday. \u201cThey probably won\u2019t cause much damage in a yard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said the grasshoppers, measuring about 1.5 inches (3.80 centimetres), will all have flown out of the Las Vegas area within a couple of weeks at the most.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re moving through,\u201d he said. \u201cBasically, they come in, settle in, then at night they take off and fly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said the best away to avoid attracting the insects, which are drawn to ultra violet light, is to install yellow or amber lights which should deter them.<\/p>\n<p>And in the event the bugs end up inside a home, Knight had simple advice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust use a vacuum cleaner,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>**AFP<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script>\n\t!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n\t\tn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\n\t\tn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n\t\tt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\n\t\tdocument,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n\tfbq('init', '247107802609931');\n\tfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Massive swarms of grasshoppers have surprisingly descended on the Las Vegas Strip this week, startling tourists and residents as they pass through town on their northbound migration. 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