This is even older - Old Testament that is!
"An unfortunate coincidence of nature" that the same conditions that gave rise to a good grain harvest were those that allowed locusts to thrive, they reckon.
Very unfortunate.
Monday, October 4, 2010
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A plague on ahh their houses, huh?
whoops - fat finger syndrome strikes again! ALL their houses ..
Our houses too if we don't take care of our environment Invent.
A locust plague does have a certain primal fascination - when viewed from afar!
I'd be looking at ways to get capture, kill and bury as many of them as I could in order to boost the fertility of the soil for next years crop, as this years would be a write-off. I wonder how much locust droppings add to the fertility?
They'd be a second-best calorie return from the crop too! Crispy hopper on a bed of weevil-ridden rice!
Mmmm... snap, crackle and pop!
Hmmm, what could this mean?
Same as it ever meant Shunda, same as it ever meant.
I would say that God is punishing them but appartantly he is in Chch at the moment.....
Nah - that's Bob Parker.
He thinks he's God.
What is Australia missing in the food chain then - who eats the locusts for lunch?
What's missing in the Australian food chain Poppy?
Water.
So are you saying Robert that there is a water creature that would eat the locusts - because my perception is that Nature always creates a 'circle of life' effect in the animal/plant kingdom - therefore Nature wouldn't have created locusts without a natural predator!
You're quite right Poppy - there are always checks and balances, except where we humans step in and try to extract more than our share of crops, water, resources of all sorts, without seeing the big picture. That's when the locusts start to arrive.
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