• StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website
    101·
    1 year ago

    This is so awful for farmers.

    I hope there is some openness to connecting up the dots between climate change and increasing frequency of pests out of control.

    • corsicanguppy
      6·
      1 year ago

      I’m not sure how, but I’m sure this is Hair Guy’s fault somehow.

      Didn’t we have a PM who shut down a lot of inexpensive, long-running and valuable environmental studies under the cheap lie of “cost saving”? That was Hair Guy right? Totally that guy’s culpable.

      • StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website
        7·
        1 year ago

        Not sure who you mean by ‘hair guy.’

        Would that possibly be a PM who was from Alberta, a province suffering environmental disasters this year?

  • hawkwind@lemmy.management
    7·
    1 year ago

    There was a “grasshopper” year when I was a teenager… Sometime in the 90s I think. I remember how you could see waves of them in front of something was moving through the field; and all the plugged up radiators. So many pugged up radiators… The carwash had to put a grate over the drain and throw into a grasshopper pile everyday so it didn’t plug up the drain.

    • GrindingGears
      5·
      1 year ago

      I remember a grasshopper year in (I think) 1986, visiting my uncle in Saskatchewan. We flew into Regina and picked up the rental car, an hour and a half later it was absolutely covered in grasshoppers. It’s a really distinct memory from my childhood.