Grasshoppers threaten to devour Alberta crops following extreme heat | CBC News

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/grasshopper-alberta-infestation-1.6886373

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StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website · 9 pts · 3y (2 replies)

This is so awful for farmers.

I hope there is some openness to connecting up the dots between climate change and increasing frequency of pests out of control.

corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 3y (1 reply)

I'm not sure how, but I'm sure this is Hair Guy's fault somehow.

Didn't we have a PM who shut down a lot of inexpensive, long-running and valuable environmental studies under the cheap lie of "cost saving"? That was Hair Guy right? Totally that guy's culpable.

StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website · 7 pts · 3y

Not sure who you mean by ‘hair guy.’

Would that possibly be a PM who was from Alberta, a province suffering environmental disasters this year?

cyborganism@kbin.social · 7 pts · 3y (1 reply)

We're literally witnessing the apocalypse, and yet I'm expected to go to work on Monday.

Almostarctic@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y

Pandemic Disease, check. Fire, check. Floods, check. Locusts, check.

hawkwind@lemmy.management · 7 pts · 3y (1 reply)

There was a "grasshopper" year when I was a teenager.. Sometime in the 90s I think. I remember how you could see waves of them in front of something was moving through the field; and all the plugged up radiators. So many pugged up radiators... The carwash had to put a grate over the drain and throw into a grasshopper pile everyday so it didn't plug up the drain.

GrindingGears@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 3y

I remember a grasshopper year in (I think) 1986, visiting my uncle in Saskatchewan. We flew into Regina and picked up the rental car, an hour and a half later it was absolutely covered in grasshoppers. It's a really distinct memory from my childhood.