![]() ![]() The state has records as far back as the early 1960s of Nevada grasshopper invasions. Previous: Grasshoppers are invading Las Vegas. The jumpy bugs are likely to remain in transit across Southern Nevada over the next several weeks, Knight said. That's why the insects are often found swarming glowing bulbs of white light. The grasshoppers are attracted to ultraviolet light. "They probably won’t cause much damage in a yard.” "They don’t carry any diseases, they don’t bite, they’re not even one of the species that we consider a problem," said Jeff Knight, an entomologist with the Nevada Department of Agriculture. Watch Video: Grasshoppers swarm Las Vegas Grasshoppers on the moveĪ wet spring expedited the insect swarm's northern migration, but the bugs are not dangerous. The most common "biological targets" captured on weather radar in Southern Nevada are birds and bats. The National Weather Service upgraded its radar system in the spring of 2012.Įnhancements made the service's weather sampling capabilities much more sensitive, able to differentiate between large raindrops, small raindrops – and sometimes even biological entities. “Haven’t seen something like this in a long time,” Guillet said.Īrea 51: We visited Amargosa Valley where a brothel, truck stop await 1.7 million people Biological targets While some of the activity in the northern sector of the radar display included rain, a majority of the green coloring in the southern half of Las Vegas represented an insect invasion so large it registered on weather radar. The service posted a photo of the radar images to Twitter Friday night, showing what looked like a large storm moving east-to-west across the Las Vegas Valley. Most of the flurry found on the screen, she said, was a sprawling swarm of pallid-winged grasshoppers now plaguing the neon lights, streets and sidewalks of Las Vegas. " Insect swarms," said National Weather Service Meteorologist Kate Guillet. LAS VEGAS – On Friday night, meteorologists in Southern Nevada looked at the pulsing green images on the weather radar and discovered there was much to it than raindrops of scattered thunderstorms swirling on the screen. Ladybug swarm: Weather Service says a massive ladybug swarm was spotted.Watch Video: Huge swarms of grasshoppers descend on Las Vegas In 2010, state agriculture officials geared up for a springtime invasion of crop-eating grasshoppers in northern Nevada. In three decades as an entomologist, Knight has seen the insects visit southern Nevada four or five times. The jumpy bugs are likely to remain in transit across southern Nevada over the next several weeks, Knight said. That's why the insects are often found swarming glowing bulbs of white light.įlying ant day: Flying ants swarm into Britain in colossal hordes seen from space Grasshoppers on the moveĪ wet spring expedited the insect swarm's northern migration, but the bugs are not dangerous. The most common "biological targets" captured on weather radar in southern Nevada are birds and bats. Grasshopper invasion: Grasshoppers are invading Las Vegas. ![]() “Haven’t seen something like this in a long time,” Guillet said. ![]() " Insect swarms," National Weather Service meteorologist Kate Guillet said. LAS VEGAS – On Friday night, meteorologists in southern Nevada looked at the pulsing green images on the weather radar and discovered there was much more to it than the raindrops of scattered thunderstorms swirling on the screen. Watch Video: Grasshoppers swarm Las Vegas ![]()
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