Mormon cricketsare insects with multiple wives who live in Utah , travelling to Nevada to rust crops and play craps — or something like that . I ’m not David Attenborough , o.k. ? One real thing : They detest rock music .
They detest it so much that residents of Tuscarora , Nevada , oppose this cuss with a perimeter of — get this — boom boxes and stereos play hard rock candy , tuning to local radio station KHIX . They do n’t need to kill them , but not because they are a gang of Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree - huggin greenish communist hippies , but because when you kill them they smell out horrible , grant to them .
The pest of the two - inch - long walking Mormon cricket — who are acquit in April in northern Nevada and western Utah — add up every twelvemonth , devastating crops and anything green , and even have car accident . Their two by one miles marching pillar are so obtuse that , when passed over on road , they form tricky blood and gut spill that may cause automobiles to miss grip and crash . In 2008 they had to call snowplow to clean the main road that goes through Elko County in Nevada .
So people in Tuscarora use the only tool they know to convince them to take another track without killing them : Hard rock candy and overweight alloy during the day , since at nighttime the critters sleep — while they are not eat the fellow cricket that break down during the march . And while there ’s no scientific grounds that firm well-grounded wave like those farm by the likes of Kiss and Metallica , the affair is that it works for them . [ WSJ ]
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