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‘Apocalyptic’: I’m a prisoner in my own home infested with thousands of creepy bugs
By Mary K. Jacob
June 16, 2023
Colette and Mike Reynolds awoke Sunday morning to find a nightmare scene of thousands of creepy crickets infesting their home in Elko, Nevada — and the city itself.
Known as Mormon crickets, Colette has lived in the city her whole life, and told The Post they’re used to a few of them migrating into their house each year, but never have they seen it this bad before.
“They are foul, vile, stinky, disgusting carnivorous, cannibalistic crickets — huge ones,” she said.
Colette revealed that she first noticed just two crickets on her porch the day prior, on Saturday, thinking they must be coming soon, but not expecting anything of magnitude.
“The next morning is when we woke up to our entire wall covered with crickets,” she said.
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Source: https://nypost.com/2023/06/16/nevada-home-infested-with-thousands-of-mormon-crickets/
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Mmmmm...lunch
I was on a week long water skiing adventure one time down at Lake Powell. We camped on a beach. Woke up one morning and the place was covered with them.
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Grasshoppers will do the same thing.
Note to self: spray around the house as soon as it gets a little cooler.
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I had no knowledge of those critters until I met up with them in Nevada. I'd been looking over the rocks in a turquoise mine dump and got down to the valley floor and decided to take a look around a loading dock someone had built there to see if anything good had fallen off the truck.
I parked my van, got out and noticed there was a light breeze, sagebrush leaves lightly rattling as I walked past a clump from the wind. The breeze stopped, but the noise kept up...
One of those Twilight Zone moments...ever conscious of proximity to nuclear test sites and having a strong background in 'B' horror flicks based on radiation induced mutations to the local fauna...I walked cautiously around that clump of sagebrush, looking for what was making the noise. It erupted with big, black bugs, 3" or so long in the body.
My first thought was "It's only three giant steps back to the van."
I took them.
On the drive out, I noticed they made a neat somewhat satisfying crunchy noise when I drove over them, and the ones not killed outright squealed...
A mere 60 miles of dirt road later, I was back at the rig, and told the guys there what had happened. They got a laugh out of it and told me those were Mormon Crickets.
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Sounds like they have become Locusts and are preparing to swarm.
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Do Mormon crickets wear white shirts, ties and a name tag?
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Do Mormon crickets wear white shirts, ties and a name tag?
Nope. And they don't just travel in pairs.
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Are they really mormons though?
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Sounds like they have become Locusts and are preparing to swarm.
That has happened in the past, though they are wingless, so their devastation is limited to the foothills of the Rockies... And it hasn't happened since the advent of chemical insecticides. They are a much easier target than the airborne kind.
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Pray for seagulls...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_of_the_gulls
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About three years ago conditions must have been close to perfect because we had an explosion of crickets, there were times that it looked like the sidewalk in places was crawling there were so many at night. I use food grade Dematiaceous Earth inside and out to control fleas and works on crickets too while being safe for dogs, cats and other non insects. But if you really have it as bad as these folks say, I would invest in some Geckos.
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About three years ago conditions must have been close to perfect because we had an explosion of crickets, there were times that it looked like the sidewalk in places was crawling there were so many at night. I use food grade Dematiaceous Earth inside and out to control fleas and works on crickets too while being safe for dogs, cats and other non insects. But if you really have it as bad as these folks say, I would invest in some Geckos.
Chickens. They wouldn't cost anything till the crickets are gone... And they will be gone.
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These aren't your average cricket folks: (https://www.idahostatesman.com/outdoors/fishing/mib3yk/picture164521402/alternates/LANDSCAPE_1140/Mormon%20Cricket)(Idaho Statesman)
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These aren't your average cricket folks: (https://www.idahostatesman.com/outdoors/fishing/mib3yk/picture164521402/alternates/LANDSCAPE_1140/Mormon%20Cricket)(Idaho Statesman)
Ugh
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Chickens. They wouldn't cost anything till the crickets are gone... And they will be gone.
They would me, I live in an apartment complex in a city, chickens would cost me plenty. :silly:
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These aren't your average cricket folks: (https://www.idahostatesman.com/outdoors/fishing/mib3yk/picture164521402/alternates/LANDSCAPE_1140/Mormon%20Cricket)(Idaho Statesman)
My dog is pretty darn good hunting down the small variety cricket but I think she would freak if there a bunch of those in the room and it would take more than a few Geckos or the would get full awful fast.
Apparently this is a huge issue in Nevada right now. https://www.9news.com/article/news/national/mormon-crickets-elko-nevada-migration-2023/73-216440bb-e0e5-4820-936d-c7d730c81fb9
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These aren't your average cricket folks: (https://www.idahostatesman.com/outdoors/fishing/mib3yk/picture164521402/alternates/LANDSCAPE_1140/Mormon%20Cricket)(Idaho Statesman)
My dog is pretty darn good hunting down the small variety cricket but I think she would freak if there a bunch of those in the room and it would take more than a few Geckos or the would get full awful fast.
Apparently this is a huge issue in Nevada right now. https://www.9news.com/article/news/national/mormon-crickets-elko-nevada-migration-2023/73-216440bb-e0e5-4820-936d-c7d730c81fb9
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They would me, I live in an apartment complex in a city, chickens would cost me plenty. :silly:
LOL!... Maybe not in the face of a pestilence swarm... Folks would figger out right quick that chickensh*t is more pleasant than locusts. And when it's over, a bangin BBQ out on the commons (but no Bud Light). :laugh:
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Elko, NV? Thank goodness!