I'm certain folks have heard of the cricket shortage in North America. (I myself had to hire the neighborhood kids to collect bugs for me...between this and the extreme heat here in Omaha...)


Anyway, what exactly was the cause? I keep hearing and reading "VIRUS!" But when I ask "Which virus?" no one seems to know. After hearing of cricket farmers "burning their barns" and other, crazier things I became quite curious as to the nature of this "plague".

Oddly enough, I have not been able to find much of anything on the subject.