sistaspirit3
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When I was a kid of about 5 I lived in Northern Victoria (Aust) where there was a locust plague. I caught a heap of locusts in a big cordial bottle and stuffed a whole lot of grass in there with them. I left the bottle outside at night when I came in from a storm starting. In the morning, I went out to the bottle and saw something amazing. The locusts had built a vertical circle with the grass and were marching around and around in their own intersecting circle, like the grass was a big tunnel. I was so excited I picked up the bottle, but the grass circle just collapsed and the locusts scattered and I never got to show anybody.
Last year there was an episode of Catalyst that said that locusts can march, they do it to sort of work out who isn't a proper "warrior" or something - any locust that doesn't march gets eaten by the other locusts.
Now what I would really like to know is, given there is a locust plague in Northern Victoria now (and I don't live there any more), whether any of you kids would give it a try - catch some locusts in a big plastic bottle, and put some grass to see what they do? I don't know whether the storm or the night were significant factors - I think there is a storm coming on the weekend?
I can't tell you how fantastic it would be to hear someone else got to see this - I've never forgotten.
PS Dear Teriann Chapple. You have put the same answer to about 4 questions today. Please don't clog the airwaves in order to get points. I don't think I need to add any more to my already detailed description.
Last year there was an episode of Catalyst that said that locusts can march, they do it to sort of work out who isn't a proper "warrior" or something - any locust that doesn't march gets eaten by the other locusts.
Now what I would really like to know is, given there is a locust plague in Northern Victoria now (and I don't live there any more), whether any of you kids would give it a try - catch some locusts in a big plastic bottle, and put some grass to see what they do? I don't know whether the storm or the night were significant factors - I think there is a storm coming on the weekend?
I can't tell you how fantastic it would be to hear someone else got to see this - I've never forgotten.
PS Dear Teriann Chapple. You have put the same answer to about 4 questions today. Please don't clog the airwaves in order to get points. I don't think I need to add any more to my already detailed description.