3/18/2004: Locust swarm
 

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Our Aussie friends might have something to say about this. It's the outback, New South Wales where thousands upon thousands of locusts are swarming for the last few days. Apparently it was caused by strange weather patterns because it followed a period of heavy rains. They're spraying to try to prevent breeding, but area farmers have lost most of their crops. full story

It turns out adult locusts can migrate 300 miles overnight. Coming soon to a town near you?

After she finishes sweeping them up, what's she gonna do with them? Where's she gonna put them?

During a survival training we were told that a locust, depending on the size, has more proteins than a steak.
So we tried it out, there're a lot of different possibilities, I prefere them in boiling oil with a little honey on them, really crusty :)

:vomit:
I'm not feeling the best today so thanx for pushing my stomach that bit further Pi :D

(besides people) What eats locusts, naturally ?

birds? really big birds? Lizards of some sort? .... I wonder what kind of a "trickle up" effect this has on the ecology..

Oh my god, they had better not head over my way (Sydney). I hate those things, I hate anything that jumps or has more then 4 legs and belongs to the critter world, I'll be screaming the house down if I have even one in my place, :worried:

So we can add bugs to the list of things Leah hates.

Let's see, 1) strange people from different cultures 2) family members of terrorists 3) bugs.

Anything else? Please share your hatred with us some more.

No, that just about sums it up for me. But spiders are on the top of my list.:)

Man, the chickens would love that.

Didn't you know that mostly everybody swallows up to 8 spiders during his life, and most of them while sleeping?
I solved the problem by catching 8 spiders and eating them with some ketchup. The only thing I didn't like were the hairy legs...
:yum:

No way, not me. Although I have swallowed a fly :vomit:
I'd rather not think about that.

Yeah this looks funny, and can be fun for 10 minits as you run around the yard as a tordado of hoppers fly sky high at your every step, but after that its just annoying. and noisy.

My mum (and all her neighbours in country NSW) have lost thousands of dollars worth of oats, and the already starving lambs have now much less food to eat poor babys. a good thing though, my mum said they appear not to be eating the hay stored that we have, because it is not green.

Just another slap in the face for us, 1st the droght, then the fires, then the flood, now this. what next?

The plague.

Then Armageddon.

:worried:

But i havent even started my list yet!!!