Victoria and New South Wales are facing a locust plague.
Sounds a bit like a Biblical event but, even as an atheist, I have to say that it is true.
I came out of work today and there was a locust sitting on the roof of my car. (No camera, so you will have to take my word for it.)
Not a plague by my car's perspective but worrying for my garden if they arrive in numbers.
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I believe they are a delicacy in some cultures. A feast, rather than a famine.
ReplyDeleteyeah...a special delicacies found in Thailand
ReplyDeleteHazeleyed Lady: I have tried them. OK but no deep passion to start a local franchise.
ReplyDeletei caught 11 in my garden and set them free far away, just the other day i spotted 3 more.
ReplyDeleteIt is a worry, isn't it? It's big news in NSW too..
ReplyDeleteewhhh, never saw one.
ReplyDeleteI saw a bit on this on the weekend and the farmers are forced to pesticide for their business' sake and also for controlling the plague.
ReplyDeleteHmm - guess I never saw a photo of the proverbial locust. Looks just like the "grasshoppers" that used to be around my grandmother's cottage at the beach - although definitely no plague, they were pretty widely scattered.
ReplyDeleteI thought they were also a delicacy of magpies?
ReplyDeletePerhaps find which ones and then get friendly with the birds?
Are all of my sentences questions?
Oh, feathers!
Ah.....
ugly. Are row covers of any use at all?
ReplyDeleteHave only seen that one, on my car.
ReplyDeleteHave you been keeping quiet about the blood, frogs, gnats, flies, pestilence, boils and hail?
ReplyDeleteAre you talking about budget time in State Parliament?
ReplyDeleteFinges crossed for you!
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