If It's Not One Plague, It's Another!

The extreme heat and drought in the US West provides ideal conditions for the hatching of grasshopper eggs. Swarms of these insects are now devouring all the vegetation on farms and ranches (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/04/grasshopper-swarms-us-west-drought). This is highly predictable, as the environmental conditions force the grasshoppers to fly in search of food. They become just like the proverbial locust!