Odd News Roundup: Grasshoppers take Vegas by swarm, disrupting weather radar, tourism

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Grasshoppers take Vegas by swarm, disrupting weather radar, tourism

Swarms of grasshoppers have descended upon America's Sin City in unusual abundance this week, disrupting weather radars, deterring tourists and invoking hysteria on social media. The clouds of buzzing insects, whose migration through the Las Vegas Valley scientists say is the result of a wetter-than-normal winter, were big enough that the National Weather Service detected them on its radar.

(With inputs from agencies.)