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Season 1, Episode 5: Mormon Crickets vs Locusts, the swarming cousins of two continents.
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Today’s episode starts with a very specific kind of desert memory: growing up in Northern Nevada, riding out in a jeep to hunt fossils, and accidentally driving straight into what I can only describe as a wall of bugs—Mormon crickets—so thick the tires went crunch, crunch, crunch and the road turned slick like summer ice from pure cricket sludge. That year sent me down a rabbit hole of insect…