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'They’re just gross': Mormon crickets descend on Nevada and wreak havoc​


Parts of Nevada are being overrun by an explosion of flightless, ground-dwelling cannibalistic insects creating nightmares of Biblical proportions.

Business and residents said they are battling millions of Mormon crickets that descended on the state this week in an effort save land and morale.

In Elko, a city in northeastern Nevada south of the Idaho border, crickets converged Monday, covering roads, vegetation, and even local hospital walls, multiple media outlets are reporting.

“Just to get patients into the hospital we had people out there with leaf blowers, with brooms, at one point we even had a tractor with a snowplow on it just to push the piles of crickets and move them on their way,” Steve Burrows, director of community relations at Northeastern Nevada Regional Hospital, told local KSL TV.

Native to western North America, the crickets' populations are cyclic over many years and some residents in the mini-metropolis of just over 20,000 people, are not pleased with their return.

“They’re just gross,” Precious Drake of Elko, told the outlet. “They look like spiders, and they poop everywhere.”

What do Mormon Crickets eat?​

According to the University of Nevada in Reno, Mormon crickets can grow larger than two inches and are found in rangelands west of the Missouri River and across all of Nevada. They eat perennials, grass, shrubs and crops, subsequently reducing feed for grazing wildlife and livestock.

Mormon crickets are also cannibalistic and, if their bellies are not full, will eat one another dead or alive.

The insects are not true crickets but are "shield-backed, short-winged katydids that resemble fat grasshoppers that cannot fly," according to the university. Adult Mormon crickets have long antennae and a shiny exoskeleton in a wide array of colors and patterns.

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'They’re just gross': Mormon crickets descend on Nevada and wreak havoc

"They look like spiders, and they poop everywhere," Precious Drake of Elko, told a local outlet.
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USA TODAY

'They’re just gross': Mormon crickets descend on Nevada and wreak havoc​


Parts of Nevada are being overrun by an explosion of flightless, ground-dwelling cannibalistic insects creating nightmares of Biblical proportions.

Business and residents said they are battling millions of Mormon crickets that descended on the state this week in an effort save land and morale.

In Elko, a city in northeastern Nevada south of the Idaho border, crickets converged Monday, covering roads, vegetation, and even local hospital walls, multiple media outlets are reporting.

“Just to get patients into the hospital we had people out there with leaf blowers, with brooms, at one point we even had a tractor with a snowplow on it just to push the piles of crickets and move them on their way,” Steve Burrows, director of community relations at Northeastern Nevada Regional Hospital, told local KSL TV.

Native to western North America, the crickets' populations are cyclic over many years and some residents in the mini-metropolis of just over 20,000 people, are not pleased with their return.

“They’re just gross,” Precious Drake of Elko, told the outlet. “They look like spiders, and they poop everywhere.”

What do Mormon Crickets eat?​

According to the University of Nevada in Reno, Mormon crickets can grow larger than two inches and are found in rangelands west of the Missouri River and across all of Nevada. They eat perennials, grass, shrubs and crops, subsequently reducing feed for grazing wildlife and livestock.

Mormon crickets are also cannibalistic and, if their bellies are not full, will eat one another dead or alive.

The insects are not true crickets but are "shield-backed, short-winged katydids that resemble fat grasshoppers that cannot fly," according to the university. Adult Mormon crickets have long antennae and a shiny exoskeleton in a wide array of colors and patterns.

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'They’re just gross': Mormon crickets descend on Nevada and wreak havoc

"They look like spiders, and they poop everywhere," Precious Drake of Elko, told a local outlet.
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Tens of Thousands of Dead Fish Wash Ashore on Gulf Coast in Texas​

A “perfect storm” of bad conditions, including high temperatures, starved the fish of oxygen, officials said.

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Tens of thousands of fish washed ashore along the gulf coast of Texas starting on Friday after being starved of oxygen in warm water, officials said.

Park officials for Brazoria County said that a cleanup effort was underway but thousands more fish were expected to wash ashore.

Officials for Quintana Beach County Park published photos on Saturday showing scores of dead fish floating in the coastal waters.

The cause was a “perfect storm” of bad conditions, said Bryan Frazier, the director of the Brazoria County Parks Department.

Warm water holds much less oxygen than cold water, he said, and calm seas and cloudy skies in the area had stymied the ways oxygen is usually infused into ocean water. Waves add oxygen to water, and cloudy skies reduce the ability of microscopic organisms to produce oxygen through photosynthesis.

When schools of fish are trapped in shallow, warm water, they can start to act erratically as they are starved of oxygen, which further depletes oxygen in the water.

Katie St. Clair, the sea life facility manager at Texas A&M University at Galveston, said that the warming of gulf coast waters through climate change could have contributed to the fish kill.


“As we see increased water temperatures, certainly this could lead to more of these events occurring,” Ms. St. Clair said, “especially in our shallow, near-shore or inshore environments.”

The National Weather Service recorded a high of 92 degrees in Brazoria County on Friday, the day the dead fish were first reported washing ashore.

Mr. Frazier added that such fish kills are “not that uncommon” in the area and start to occur when the water warms during the summer.

“It is a little alarming to see a wave of dead fish wash ashore,” Mr. Frazier said. But he added that local water conditions would improve as ocean waves add oxygen back into the water and as fish swim away from areas with low oxygen.

“Mother Nature has a way of balancing that out,” Mr. Frazier said. “It should correct itself here in the pretty near future.”

A United Nations report concluded in 2019 that warming ocean water had increased incidences of hypoxia — or low oxygen levels — in coastal waters, threatening fish populations. One of the authors of the report said at the time that oxygen loss and other effects of global warming would “create enormous pressure” on the Gulf Coast region in the future.

In addition to localized cases of hypoxia, a large “dead zone” of water spanning thousands of square miles is known to form in the Gulf of Mexico during the summer months.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration forecast on Monday that this dead zone would be smaller than usual this year, covering about 4,155 square miles of coastal waters.

Ms. St. Clair said that the fish kill could have a significant environmental impact because the dead fish — mostly Gulf menhaden — play a “critical role” in the local ecosystem.

“You could see cascading impacts if we continue to have these large fish kills,” she said.

The dead fish started washing ashore in Brazoria County, roughly 65 miles south of Houston, early on Friday morning, Mr. Frazier said, and park crews were quickly dispatched to clear and bury them before they started to rot in the midday heat.

“We need to get those moved off fairly quickly,” Mr. Frazier said. “It doesn’t take long for them to sit there in 90-degree heat to really rack up an unpleasant smell.”
 
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Walking away: San Francisco mall owner hands property back to bank as exodus continues

Westfield has given up its San Francisco Centre mall according to a new report, making it the latest company to flee the crime-riddled California city.
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Westfield confirmed to FOX Business Monday that the company and partner Brookfield Properties earlier this month stopped making payments on a $558 million loan securing the San Francisco Centre property.

"For more than 20 years, Westfield has proudly and successfully operated San Francisco Centre, investing significantly over that time in the vitality of the property," the company said in a statement.

Westfield's move comes less than a week after Park Hotels & Resorts announced it had handed two prominent hotels back to the bank. The real estate investment trust said it was abandoning the Hilton San Francisco Union Square and Parc 55, saying the city's streets are unsafe and expressing doubts about the area's ability to recover.

"The Westfield San Francisco Centre is arguable the heart of retail in San Francisco," Dennis told FOX Business. "Another massive loss for the worst managed city in America. What's scary is we're nowhere near the bottom."
 
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Walking away: San Francisco mall owner hands property back to bank as exodus continues

Westfield has given up its San Francisco Centre mall according to a new report, making it the latest company to flee the crime-riddled California city.
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Westfield confirmed to FOX Business Monday that the company and partner Brookfield Properties earlier this month stopped making payments on a $558 million loan securing the San Francisco Centre property.

"For more than 20 years, Westfield has proudly and successfully operated San Francisco Centre, investing significantly over that time in the vitality of the property," the company said in a statement.

Westfield's move comes less than a week after Park Hotels & Resorts announced it had handed two prominent hotels back to the bank. The real estate investment trust said it was abandoning the Hilton San Francisco Union Square and Parc 55, saying the city's streets are unsafe and expressing doubts about the area's ability to recover.

"The Westfield San Francisco Centre is arguable the heart of retail in San Francisco," Dennis told FOX Business. "Another massive loss for the worst managed city in America. What's scary is we're nowhere near the bottom."
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A man knocked down a wall in his basement. He found an abandoned underground city that was once home to 20,000 people.

Derinkuyu, a subterranean city in Turkey that stretches 280 feet below Earth's surface, was rediscovered by a man looking for his lost chickens.
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A man knocked down a wall in his basement. He found an abandoned underground city that was once home to 20,000 people.​


  • Derinkuyu is a subterranean city in Turkey stretching 280 feet below the Earth's surface.
  • The ancient city was used for centuries before it was abandoned in the 1920s.
  • A local man rediscovered it in 1963 when he went looking for his lost chickens behind a wall.
Stretching 280 feet below the Earth's surface in Cappadocia, Turkey, is a web of tunnels and cave-like dwellings that once housed 20,000 people.

The ancient city, Derinkuyu, lay abandoned for decades until, in the 1960s, a local man noticed his chickens were disappearing through a gap in his basement that had opened up during renovations, the BBC reported. After knocking down a wall, he found a tunnel — and accidentally rediscovered the sprawling, subterranean city.

Now part of a UNESCO World Heritage site, Derinkuyu is open to visitors, although they can only explore eight of its 18 levels. Here's a closer look at the remarkable city and its history.

Derinkuyu is an 18-level underground city in the Cappadocia region of Turkey. At its deepest point, it reaches 280 feet below the Earth's surface.

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