LASALLE, Colo.—If the drought isn’t enough, Colorado farmers are now seeing crop-eating insects chomping on their fields.
Agriculture experts say grasshoppers are back this year in huge numbers in some areas of Colorado.
But grasshoppers aren’t even the biggest problem this year.
Western corn root worms are showing up in heavy numbers, feeding on corn roots and heavily damaging the plant. And spider mites are attacking the leaves of corn and other plants, sucking out their nutrients and killing them.
Colorado State University extension agent Ron Meyer tells The Denver Post ( ) that the pests are directly related to the weather.
Meyer says the mild winter didn’t control the pests and the warm, dry spring resulted in bigger pest numbers.
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Information from: The Denver Post,
