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GRASSHOPPERS EVERYWHERE! I did not see this coming. Unlike the swarms that descended on Las Vegas recently, our grasshoppers invaded on the ground like a disciplined army. It was a week before I discovered what was eating my flowers. I walked out on my porch one morning, and everything in a pot—vinca, impatiens, begonias—had been chewed away to nothing. It looked like someone had come along with…