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		phkahler on Jan 31, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: “Unprecedented” locust invasion threatens crops in... Just keep enough of them in a small enclosure. Be prepared to increase enclosure size rapidly for a few days or weeks.

baroomba on Jan 31, 2020 [–]

Looks like grasshoppers generally live 50ish days as an adult. That's gonna put some serious limits on your max per-grasshopper-leg-rubber total accumulated grasshoppers.

imtringued on Jan 31, 2020 | [–]

The grasshoppers rub each other.

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