A grasshopper chewed your wheat did it?

[John Gryphon]

20 tons a day of chewing.

Outback locust plague risk looms large as swarms destroy pastures

On the outback horizon, a locust swarm is brewing. A taskforce has formed to combat the pests before they become a plague in spring.

www.abc.net.au

 

[Demetrius]

The face of the guy in the video says it all...
Probably the only way to deal with this is to use some form of biological control, find something that infects them or renders them sterile.

D.

 

[Essexsussex]

Don’t people stalk them? .022PRC? No head shots sanctioned I presume

 

[John Gryphon]

Don’t people stalk them? .022PRC? No head shots sanctioned I presume

They get to be a fair size down here.

 

[Loki]

Hi John

Fair lump of protein there...............maybe a tad crunchy, but protein nonetheless, just saying.
A swarm could feed one for many months in different dishes..........just saying again!

L

 

[bullet chucker]

You would struggle to get that one on the Barbie!

BC.

 

[John Gryphon]

Hi John

Fair lump of protein there...............maybe a tad crunchy, but protein nonetheless, just saying.
A swarm could feed one for many months in different dishes..........just saying again!

L

My little Greek mate down the road used to catch yellow winged locusts and cook them and convinced me that they "are really good"..yeah right..wrong..the taste was ok but the thoughts of all the tape worm eggs they had eaten was in my mind.

 

[Essexsussex]

My little Greek mate down the road used to catch yellow winged locusts and cook them and convinced me that they "are really good"..yeah right..wrong..the taste was ok but the thoughts of all the tape worm eggs they had eaten was in my mind.

How little was he?
Is this him? I knew that locust was smaller than it looked.

 

[Demetrius]

Great photo, though.........!!

D.

 

[John Gryphon]

Great photo, though.........!!

D.

I actually thought that a resident gun nut would have ID the lever.

 

[Mike L]

I actually thought that a resident gun nut would have ID the lever.

94?

 

[John Gryphon]

94?

and calibre lol

 

[Mike L]

and calibre lol

30-30 of course

 

[John Gryphon]

30-30 of course

This is where the guru gun nuts come in..there are other cals in the 94.

 

[Mike L]

I thought 30-30 was most popular in Oz.

 

[John Gryphon]

I thought 30-30 was most popular in Oz.

I last shot one circa 45 years ago..bloody clunkers they are compared to a fine bolt.

 

[MilesW]

and calibre lol

Quite a good chance 32-40 in that era.

 

[Demetrius]

I fired something like that once........didn't keep my right hand open when working the lever.......it did bleed.

Had bolt actions ever since...

D