3/18/2004: Locust swarm

Undertoad · 03-18-2004, 11:52 AM

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?

glatt · 03-18-2004, 12:38 PM

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

Elspode · 03-18-2004, 12:53 PM

Locust recipes...

Pi · 03-18-2004, 02:21 PM

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

funkykule · 03-18-2004, 03:01 PM

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

ndetroit · 03-18-2004, 03:04 PM

(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..

Leah · 03-18-2004, 04:35 PM

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,

glatt · 03-18-2004, 04:48 PM

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.

Leah · 03-18-2004, 04:51 PM

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

Griff · 03-18-2004, 05:44 PM

Man, the chickens would love that.

Pi · 03-18-2004, 06:19 PM

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...

Leah · 03-18-2004, 06:50 PM

No way, not me. Although I have swallowed a fly

I'd rather not think about that.

Sun_Sparkz · 03-18-2004, 07:55 PM

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?

Clodfobble · 03-18-2004, 08:12 PM

The plague.

Then Armageddon.

Sun_Sparkz · 03-18-2004, 08:15 PM

But i havent even started my list yet!!!

03-18-2004, 11:52 AM	#1
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	3/18/2004: Locust swarm 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?

03-18-2004, 12:53 PM	#3
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	Locust recipes... __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog

03-18-2004, 02:21 PM	#4
Pi desperate finder Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Luxembourg Posts: 437	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 __________________ Complex simplex

03-18-2004, 05:44 PM	#10
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Man, the chickens would love that. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

03-18-2004, 06:19 PM	#11
Pi desperate finder Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Luxembourg Posts: 437	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... __________________ Complex simplex

03-18-2004, 12:38 PM	#2
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	After she finishes sweeping them up, what's she gonna do with them? Where's she gonna put them?

03-18-2004, 03:01 PM	#5
funkykule professional bowler Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 134	I'm not feeling the best today so thanx for pushing my stomach that bit further Pi

03-18-2004, 03:04 PM	#6
ndetroit Master Locutor Join Date: May 2001 Location: vancouver Posts: 158	(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..

03-18-2004, 04:35 PM	#7
Leah Love my Heffalumps Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Sydney, Australia (best place in the world) Posts: 346	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,

03-18-2004, 04:48 PM	#8
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	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.

03-18-2004, 04:51 PM	#9
Leah Love my Heffalumps Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Sydney, Australia (best place in the world) Posts: 346	No, that just about sums it up for me. But spiders are on the top of my list.

03-18-2004, 06:50 PM	#12
Leah Love my Heffalumps Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Sydney, Australia (best place in the world) Posts: 346	No way, not me. Although I have swallowed a fly I'd rather not think about that.

03-18-2004, 07:55 PM	#13
Sun_Sparkz Has Body Temperature Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: I come from a land downunder Posts: 1,105	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? __________________ We'll never be as young as we are right now

03-18-2004, 08:12 PM	#14
Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	The plague. Then Armageddon.

03-18-2004, 08:15 PM	#15
Sun_Sparkz Has Body Temperature Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: I come from a land downunder Posts: 1,105	But i havent even started my list yet!!! __________________ We'll never be as young as we are right now

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