Hungry grasshoppers spurred by US drought threaten rangeland

This photo provided by the Phillips County Extension Agency shows a wheat field damaged by grasshoppers on June 18, 2021, near Malta, Mont. U.S. agriculture officials are launching their largest campaign since the 1980s to kill grasshoppers in western states amid an outbreak of the voracious insects. A punishing drought in the U.S. West is drying up waterways, sparking wildfires and leaving farmers scrambling for water. Next up: a plague of voracious grasshoppers. (Marko Manoukian/Phillips County Extension Agency via AP)