look at all that wasted protein... they're nice fried...   

Fascinating!

This is not as uncommon than you think.  It's rarely on this scale- but I saw it happen a few times when I was doing weather radar  in the military.

It's significant to aviation since that can gunk up engines just like a birdstrike.

Bastards strip the leaves off my rose bushes.

and even eat green paint off buildings.

harpo. the ghost NON-subscriber

I went through one of these type events in Arizona while in the military in the 1970's, grasshoppers everywhere! The crunch noise and windshield getting smeared when driving was sickening! 

And more are coming!

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20141014-time-to-put-bugs-on-the-menu

Yet another reason to despise the BBC.

In my SERE course I had to eat snakes and bugs...with and without the luxury of cooking. Left something to be desired, syddie. 

Weather channel also tracked the swarms and displayed the radar images. Huge to say the least.

Yep... the swarm was about 50 miles around at times and up to 2500 feet high they said. 

Good year for bugs.  I saw another story about a bridge somewhere in the US that had so many dead mayflies piled up on it that they had to get out a snow plow to scrape them off, then throw down some sand for traction on top of the leftover goop. Lovely.  

DaveRI

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Good year for bugs.  I saw another story about a bridge somewhere in the US that had so many dead mayflies piled up on it that they had to get out a snow plow to scrape them off, then throw down some sand for traction on top of the leftover goop. Lovely.  

Yup, that happened in Iowa Dave.