Friday 12 November 2010

Uh-oh...

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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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14 comments:

  1. I believe they are a delicacy in some cultures. A feast, rather than a famine.

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  2. yeah...a special delicacies found in Thailand

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  3. Hazeleyed Lady: I have tried them. OK but no deep passion to start a local franchise.

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  4. i caught 11 in my garden and set them free far away, just the other day i spotted 3 more.

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  5. It is a worry, isn't it? It's big news in NSW too..

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  6. I 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.

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  7. Hmm - 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.

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  8. I thought they were also a delicacy of magpies?
    Perhaps find which ones and then get friendly with the birds?

    Are all of my sentences questions?

    Oh, feathers!

    Ah.....

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  9. ugly. Are row covers of any use at all?

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  10. Have only seen that one, on my car.

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  11. Have you been keeping quiet about the blood, frogs, gnats, flies, pestilence, boils and hail?

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  12. Are you talking about budget time in State Parliament?

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