"You were supposed to *observe* Mr. Goldfinger, not borrow his girlfriend."

[larryhammer]

I have just learned there is a moth called a chocolate looper. It's even almost native to the region.

This fills me with no end of glee.

That is all.

---L.

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[gillpolack.livejournal.com]

Aha, proof that one *can* have too much chocolate! A swarm of these on a dark night would do the trick. I wonder, though, if they're edible the way Bogong Moths are. Not that I've been willing to eat Bogongs - I keep explaining to people that they're not kosher (which is true) but it's more that the thought of grilling moths leaves my tastebuds untantalised. The killing thing doesn't appeal, either.

[larryhammer]

I don't think I've ever heard of any moths being grilled in the States. Given what some of them eat as caterpillars, especially the larger ones like the five-spot hawkmoth I saw yesterday (which lives on tomatoes and other nightshades), I'm a little worried about the taste.

---L.

[gillpolack.livejournal.com]

Bogong moths used to be a delicacy here. Now they're not eaten at all, we get them in plague proportions from time to time. One year Parliament House was covered in them. If we were at all sensible, Canberrans would simply have wild harvested and solved the problem. We could have sold tehm to tourists as a local delicacy: policican-scented bogongs, lightly toasted, with wild honey.

Cuuuuute

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Western Fence Lizard if you scroll down!

Re: Cuuuuute

[larryhammer]

Western Fence Lizard if you look in our back yard ...

---L.

Re: Cuuuuute

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(runs down there to see)