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Just in time for Passover: According to The Wall Street Journal, grasshopper populations were “critically high” in western states last fall, meaning they are likely to hatch this spring in bigger numbers than any year since 1985, when they caused hundreds of millions of dollars in devastation. Normally, grasshoppers live in the west at densities of eight insects per square yard; last fall, surveys found 15 per square yard and that number could rise to 60 per square yard in peak infestation areas. Worst of all, the USDA used up its entire grasshopper budget counting the insects; it has no funds left over to fight them.