What Did the Aussies Do?

To deserve this plague?

Agriculture officials say the insects hatched in northeastern Australia after heavy rains last month. They began migrating south, feeding on newly spouted crops of oats and alfalfa. “A thick haze of them came through over the weekend and chomped their way through our oats crop overnight,” said Bev Dennis from her farm in Tomingley, 340 miles west of Sydney.

Check out this photo of a poor woman sweeping up (or is she raking?) locusts as if they were pine needles or somthing.