Satan's allies

Grasshoppers are Satan's chosen representatives in the summer. Our record-shattering heat (also from Satan?) is bad enough for plants' survival, but the grasshoppers then come in and finish them off, About the only native plants that survive are the grasses, whose stems are just too spindly for the grasshoppers' tastes (pun intended). In the mountains beetles have come in and decimated native pines, making them vulnerable to wildfires.