Insect attack! US West is battling crop-killing swarms

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Farmers in the U.S. West face a creepy scourge every eight years or so: Swarms of ravenous insects that can decimate crops and cause slippery, bug-slick car crashes as they march across highways and roads. The 3-inch-long Mormon crickets are actually katydids, an entomological cousin to grasshoppers. They are named after […]