Catherine Rusoff
Mormon crickets are once again creating chaos in Nevada, where authorities said they caused several crashes on an interstate highway over the weekend.
The pesky creatures resemble fat grasshoppers and are known in parts of the western United States to sometimes appear in huge clusters that can completely cover the side of a building or an entire stretch of road.
Although the Nevada Department of Agriculture it says Mormon cricket populations have declined in recent years in most places in Nevada and have remained as large as they have ever been in two counties, Eureka and Elko. In Eureka, there were so many Mormon crickets scattered across the highway that they contributed to several accidents on Saturday.
“ECSO, Eureka County Fire, Eureka County EMS, Carlin Fire, NSP, had a busy morning responding to multiple accidents on the interstate due to rain and mud from Mormon Cricket,” said the Eureka County Sheriff’s Office he said in a Facebook post, which urged people to drive cautiously and included several images of a car and truck overturned after running off the road.
When they are crushed, Mormon crickets leave behind a foul-smelling “mud” that can pose serious driving hazards as they make roads “EXTREMELY slippery and unpredictable for stopping distance,” the sheriff’s office said. The rainy weather created an even more dangerous situation.
Mormon cricket invasions tend to happen in the spring, when eggs laid the previous summer begin to hatch, according to a fact sheet posted by the Nevada Department of Agriculture. It can be difficult to predict the size of the swarm in a given year, officials said, because it depends on a variety of environmental factors, including temperatures and late-season snowfall.
Whether crushed or not, large populations of Mormon crickets are a concern because they can destroy crops in addition to posing threats to drivers. In April, the state said it submitted a proposal to the U.S. Department of Agriculture for large-scale soil treatment in certain parts of Nevada to eliminate them.
Nevada Department of Transportation
Nevada has been plagued by intermittent infestations of Mormon crickets since the insects invaded 10 million acres of land across the state in 2006, CBS affiliate KLAS reported.
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