At one point, we even had a tractor with a snow plow on it just to push the piles of crickets and move them on their way. End quote. That according to Steve Burrows, the director of community relations at the Northeastern Nevada Regional Hospital. The Morin cricket is not really a cricket at all, but a two inch long cady did that devours grass and contributes to soil erosion. Their name comes from the wanton destruction of the Mormon settler lands in Utah. Back in the 18 hundreds