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General Category => Totally Off-Topic Discussions, Rants, Tire & Oil Threads, Etc. => Topic started by: nhmaf on April 21, 2010, 02:36:17 PM

Title: Locusts!
Post by: nhmaf on April 21, 2010, 02:36:17 PM: I heard on the CBC radio program last night that large areas of Victoria and other areas of Australia are having quite the invasion of locusts now! Seems you folks finally came out of the drought and wildfires with plenty of rain during the past 6 months and now the locust plague is at a record level!

Be careful - I imagine riding into a cloud of these things could certainly cause one to crash - or at least feel incredibly disgusting... I don't want to think about it! :D
Title: Re: Locusts!
Post by: Bob_Roller on April 21, 2010, 02:57:33 PM: I've run into, luckily not on one of the bikes, swarms of 'mormon crickets', while on some road trips here in the southwest US during the fall .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormon_cricket
Title: Re: Locusts!
Post by: nhmaf on April 21, 2010, 04:46:07 PM: At least those don't fly, but I bet if millions of them were all hopping across the same stretch of roadway the net results might be similar. Ugh!
Title: Re: Locusts!
Post by: Semper Gumby on May 15, 2010, 09:10:49 PM: Harleys?
Title: Re: Locusts!
Post by: Melena on May 15, 2010, 10:10:18 PM: Quote
Be careful - I imagine riding into a cloud of these things could certainly cause one to crash - or at least feel incredibly disgusting... I don't want to think about it!
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At least those don't fly, but I bet if millions of them were all hopping across the same stretch of roadway the net results might be similar. Ugh!

Agreed! Eeeeewwwww!

Take care out there, friends from Oz! This is another thing helmets are for........just in case! :o
Title: Re: Locusts!
Post by: Semper Gumby on May 18, 2010, 05:49:50 PM: <snap crackel pop> :o
Title: Re: Locusts!
Post by: balibeemer on May 21, 2010, 09:49:36 PM: Where I come from ( and I'm sure Danie will back me up on this) these little critters are delicious if roasted on a piece of sheet metal over a wood fire. Once cooked, remove the head, thorax and legs and just eat the abdomen. If you don't have any locusts, spread peanut butter on a potato chip( salt & Vinegar flavour) - It tastes the same!
Title: Re: Locusts!
Post by: Semper Gumby on May 24, 2010, 07:25:01 PM: I knew there was a reason I didn't like peanut butter!

:P
Title: Re: Locusts!
Post by: nhmaf on May 25, 2010, 12:19:42 AM: I heard that some australians lads tried to turn this windfall of locusts into a new pizza topping - latest word was that the demand for the locust pizza was "less than originally hoped for".
Title: Re: Locusts!
Post by: Lucky_Lou on May 25, 2010, 11:29:10 AM: Quote
I knew there was a reason I didn't like peanut butter!

:P
Ditto
Lou
Title: Re: Locusts!
Post by: Melena on May 25, 2010, 10:56:08 PM: Dang! I like peanut butter! At least I did. :P
Title: Re: Locusts!
Post by: Ed Miller on May 26, 2010, 01:43:01 PM: If you leave the thorax in, does that make it crunchy peanut butter?

Hey, I'd eat them before I would eat shrimp, that's for sure.
Title: Re: Locusts!
Post by: nhmaf on June 02, 2010, 10:31:37 PM: I'd eat shrimp WELL before I'd eat locusts - though maybe not if the shrimp were just pulled out of the Gulf of Mexico.. :(

Actually, I HAVE eaten some chocolate coated grasshoppers - I think they were definitely smaller than these locusts.
Title: Re: Locusts!
Post by: Bob_Roller on June 05, 2010, 09:45:28 AM: Just in case anyone is going to be traveling this summer in the plains states and western US here's a warning .

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20100531/sc_livescience/westpoisedforworstgrasshopperoutbreakin30years
Title: Re: Locusts!
Post by: Melena on June 05, 2010, 09:10:58 PM: Great! Just in time for the National Rally in Redmond Oregon. :P Hopefully they won't travel along the roads. Maybe it's too dry there in the eastern part of Oregon.
Title: Re: Locusts!
Post by: Darwin_R65 on June 06, 2010, 04:58:45 AM: One person story of an account with the locusts.
http://milduraweekly.ezyzine.com/ThreadView.aspx?tid=29799

John