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<text id=91TT1497>
<title>
July 08, 1991: American Notes:Florida
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
July 08, 1991 Who Are We?
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
NATION, Page 27
American Notes
FLORIDA
Biblical Plague
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<p> Swarming in numbers not seen since the early 1950s, voracious
grasshoppers have descended upon Florida's Pasco, Hernando and
Hillsborough counties, near the center of the state's $1
billion-a-year citrus-growing industry. Already the insatiable
insects have infested more than 10,000 acres of citrus groves,
hayfields and pine forests. "The grasshoppers are so thick that
the ground literally moves," says department of agriculture
spokeswoman Michele McLawhorn.
</p>
<p> For the moment, the bugs appear to be unstoppable:
available pesticides last only a short time, and grasshopper
swarms quickly move on. But recent rainstorms may help kill the
invaders, and scientists hope to end the plague once and for all
by bombarding the vulnerable grasshopper hatchlings with
pesticides in the fall.
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</body></article>
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