A swarm of grasshoppers invading Tooele, Utah was so large it registered on weather radar systems.
The plague of grasshoppers that moved into northwestern Utah late last month it was picked up by the National Weather Service.
The plague-like surge was captured around 6 pm on June 21 heading northeast toward the Great Salt Lake before hitting Tooele, Utah leaving farmers with destroyed crops.
‘Every bit of alfalfa that’s in my fields is gone,’ rancher Michael Dow told KSLTV. ‘I planted a pasture and all the seedlings were about 3/4 of an inch tall Sunday morning, and on Sunday evening, they were gone, it was bare dirt’ he explained.
There have been other reports of insects terrorizing the region for the last few weeks.