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Locusts at Araps?


Sarah Gara

15-Dec-2010
2:27:12 PM

On 15/12/2010 Wendy wrote:
>On 15/12/2010 Sarah Gara wrote:
>
> >yuk yuk yuk I don't like it when they jump near your ears-
>near your ears? There must be a statistically significant chance that
>with this quantity of them flying around your head, they'll be in your
>ears

I'm Actually amazed about how infrequently it happens considering - they seem to be quite good at avoiding me when I walk x
>


Eduardo Slabofvic

15-Dec-2010
2:54:08 PM

On 15/12/2010 Gavo wrote:
>Nati?

Yup


IdratherbeclimbingM9

15-Dec-2010
3:09:04 PM

On 15/12/2010 Eduardo Slabofvic. wrote:
>On 15/12/2010 Gavo wrote:
>>Nati?
>
>Yup

Yeah, right.
!!!

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ambyeok

16-Dec-2010
9:29:54 AM

On 14/12/2010 salty crag wrote:
>Oh please, please don't let them get down to the coast as I'm on a dare
>to devour a few of the crunchy critters if they get here. Things we commit
>to when under the influence of beer.

I live in Collingwood (Melb). Last night I kicked a locust out of my bed. Funny thing was, I didnt have any doors or windows open. Maybe it came down the chimney?

patto

16-Dec-2010
9:33:11 AM

On 16/12/2010 ambyeok wrote:
>On 14/12/2010 salty crag wrote:
>>Oh please, please don't let them get down to the coast as I'm on a dare
>>to devour a few of the crunchy critters if they get here. Things we commit
>>to when under the influence of beer.
>
>I live in Collingwood (Melb). Last night I kicked a locust out of my bed.
>Funny thing was, I didnt have any doors or windows open. Maybe it came
>down the chimney?

Beer goggles last night?


Eduardo Slabofvic

16-Dec-2010
10:17:54 AM

On 16/12/2010 ambyeok wrote:
>Last night I kicked a locust out of my bed.

Did it fart?


ambyeok

16-Dec-2010
11:47:22 AM

It was hogging the sheets.

mik

16-Dec-2010
10:27:26 PM

collingwood should be safe, DPI is helping all the farms and open public land generating locusts within the melbourne ring road...


Miguel75

16-Dec-2010
10:37:54 PM

On 16/12/2010 ambyeok
>>Last night I kicked a locust out of my bed.

Prickly legs?


bel

20-Dec-2010
1:26:43 PM

having eaten dog and rat and scopians i draw the line at locusts no matter how deep fried they are!!!

Wendy

20-Dec-2010
7:02:13 PM

the locusts were fine. to eat that is, not fine to be making walking across my yard painful. ok, so i got a leggy bit stuck in my teeth and spent a while inelegantly trying to remove it mid party, but eduardo's stir fry sauce was yummy. I was very disappointed with my house guests and partner that none of them braved the locust dish

the northern grampians are chockers with them - they made walking up to the crag today tedious as well.


Gavo

20-Dec-2010
7:54:45 PM

dagdamor

20-Dec-2010
8:29:50 PM

On 16/12/2010 ambyeok wrote:
>I live in Collingwood (Melb). Last night I kicked a locust out of my bed.
>Funny thing was, I didnt have any doors or windows open. Maybe it came
>down the chimney?

I had one appear in the backyard in Richmond two weeks ago as I was pulling out broad beans. Evidently a yuppie locust rather than its bumpkin brethren, I took some photos and then chased it around the yard trying to catch it in a bottle.


Gavo

20-Dec-2010
8:40:45 PM

Sure it wasnt just a lowly grasshopper?


Eduardo Slabofvic

21-Dec-2010
11:09:08 AM

Riding my bike has been really gross. Some times the road is totally covered in locusts and there's nothing to do other than ride through them. If you've ever seen the footage of Lance Armstrong et. al. riding through the millions of people on the Alp D'Huez time trile course then that's what its like, except the human seem to get out of the way and not try and hitch a ride

dagdamor

21-Dec-2010
3:10:35 PM

On 20/12/2010 Gavo wrote:
>Sure it wasnt just a lowly grasshopper?

Pretty sure it wasn't, given it looks just like the the one on the DPI/VNPA website and was at least as long as my middle finger.

willy

21-Dec-2010
4:20:02 PM

On 20/12/2010 bel wrote:
>having eaten dog and rat and scopians i draw the line at locusts no matter
>how deep fried they are!!!

i think on average (bread eating) humans ingest 3kg of locust mush a year. seems you may have allready been privvy to a bit of tasty hopper.


ajfclark

21-Dec-2010
4:22:01 PM

Friend of mine got an oven popped one in a box of Rice Bubbles once. They got loads of Kellogs products for finding that like a prize in a box...

john s

21-Dec-2010
5:31:55 PM

Are they eating the kangaroo grass ( or any other vegetation) at the mount?


salty crag

21-Dec-2010
9:06:58 PM

On 20/12/2010 Wendy wrote:
>the locusts were fine. to eat that is, not fine to be making walking across
>my yard painful. ok, so i got a leggy bit stuck in my teeth and spent
>a while inelegantly trying to remove it mid party, but eduardo's stir fry
>sauce was yummy.
the crusty critters still havn't made it down to the coast yet so I'm safe so far, the "leggy bit stuck in my teeth" nearly made me choke on my beer. Would eduardo share his locust recipes and has anyone else got one I can try?

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