We have locusts! End time plague?

[aldona]

I'm posting this in the World Affairs forum because the Aussie forum seems to have lapsed into a deep hibernation.

I've always known that farmers in the west of our state have to deal with locusts at certain times of the year.

We drove through a swarm of them earlier this year on our way back from Camp meeting.

But this is the first time I can recall that they have reached Melbourne.

Victorian Department of Agriculture: Locust Swarms Activity Map

One of my patients, a lady who runs a plant nursery specializing in rare medicinal and culinary herbs, had to quickly round up all of her most valuable plants and put them indoors ahead of an approaching swarm.

Sign of climate change, apocalyptic plague or both? I'm thinking both.

It's going to be an interesting summer.

AJ

[Bravus]

There's good eatin' on a locust.

[phkrause]

And pretty tasty according to John the Baptist. :)

[TWNolan]

i heard he ate locust bean, not the creature....

[Gail]

I have heard it both ways and since the locust was a clean meat, I'm not going to contest it.

[nuff sed]

Since when do locusts have split hooves and chew the cud? nuff sed

[Bravus]

Of these you may eat any kind of locust, katydid, cricket or grasshopper. Leviticus 11:22

[Bravus]

Actually, I meant to pop in with a quick joke, not derail the discussion.

I suspect the current large locust plagues are related to the drought breaking as much as anything else. They've been naturally controlled by the lack of vegetation for a while and are coming back.

The devastation a swathe of locusts can cause is astonishing, and offers a fantastic metaphor for the end of the world.

[Dr. Shane]

Do they actually eat them down under?

[aldona]

Do they actually eat them down under?

Not that I know of.

Maybe if we did, it might be one way of helping to control them.

AJ

[Planey]

Do they actually eat them down under?

Shane, you can have no idea of how delicious the drumsticks are...