Upper North Island…the crickets are everywhere!
Huge swarms of crickets are crawling out of the ground in the upper North Island. It’s not the apocalypse, as many rural residents are joking, but it is the biggest cricket invasion in many years. Peter Brennan got a bit of a shock when his evening TV programme was interrupted by what he thought was the weather. Instead, it was crickets. “It sounded like a small hailstorm, which made no sense on a hot, humid, sticky night,” he said. “We pulled the curtains back and, voila, there were all these crickets swarming against the windows.”
