Mainly because it’s a grasshopper, but only in its solitary mode. Once it activates and becomes gregarious, then it becomes a locust. I had no idea they were the same species that transforms into an eating machine and become a ‘plague’ when the conditions are right. It would seem there have been some odd occurrences in the past, recent past in the bigger scheme of things, which stand out as a bit odd. And recently having seen a number of articles about factories being built to accommodate their drive to breed crickets for consumption, got me thinking in my usual way of linking together a train of thought and seeing where it goes.

This one leads me to a very wild conspiracy theory, with nothing to go on other than a single idea. That they have no intention of us having to eat bugs at all, but that they are strategically building lots of factories for bugs for two reasons. Firstly, they could cause a devastating plague by ‘accidently’ releasing them or having an incident by which they escape, in a large enough number to cause issue to any remaining crops there are in the normal population. And secondly all those extra insects can deal with us if there happens to be lots and lots of unexpected deaths. Too much for the average services. Maybe they don’t want to keep burying people, so that will be the new way. Feed the dead to insects, and then feed the insects to the living. A very creepy food chain idea.

But there have been some notable events surrounding these insects. You may be familiar with Egypt being the host for the most famous of all, the biblical plague of locusts. Another caught my attention though, of more recent times. In the US there have a number of incidents involving the Rocky Mountain locust, which decimated crops and grew to epic proportions between 1873-1877. Oddly, it ‘just went extinct’ around 1902, just like that.

There was another locust swarm through mid-west America in 1931, which seems to be around the great depression time and was caused by the drought/dust bowl scenario they say, making the conditions perfect for the grasshoppers to morph into locusts. Displacing nearly 4 million Americans who headed towards California, it is also said that Canada experienced a similar incident that year, leading to unemployment camps being built for the men who couldn’t find jobs, but could work hard labour for a dollar a day. Someone benefitted there, as someone always inevitably does from disaster.

But I never just take anything on face value, and although it may well be as they say, I’ll also look at the other possibilities and options. And there seems to be an ulterior motive for most things being introduced these days, so I think it is correct to question it. Or as they are quite fond of telling you one thing while doing the exact opposite, so if you apply that logic, suddenly things are very different from how they first appeared.

Strange as well how one of the news reports I read, mention them just falling from the sky, seems there have been other events and odd things to look into…

(c) K Wicks