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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Rio Yamat and Rick Bowmer

Blood-red crickets invade Nevada town, residents fight back with brooms, leaf blowers, snow plows

Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved

Dana Dolan was driving through her small Nevada hometown when she thought she had come upon a gory crash. The ground surrounding Elko's stretch of Interstate 80 looked as if it had been covered in blood. As the red color shifted and moved, she realized instead it was an infiltration of crickets, some bigger than her thumb.

“It’s almost like a biblical plague,” Dolan told The Associated Press last week, laughing at the absurdity of the situation that is playing out in Elko, where she's lived for six years.

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