Swarm of grasshoppers weighing 30 TONS invaded Las Vegas on one night in 2019, radar data show
Las Vegas is one of the brightest-lit cities in the US that attracts people from around the world, but the artificial lights also lured 46 million grasshoppers in one summer night in 2019. A new study analyzed the invasion using radar data, finding that artificial light awakened the rather idle insects and did so in … Read more