Not too dissimilar from what is seen when the lights in Parliament House are turned on.

 

They have a sign now.... it’s all good
Pity there is no phone service to call the number listed anywhere near the place mentioned.....

 

There are more dangerous places ...

 

Relax - it's just a moth..


https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/07/...te=1&user_id=db0f1251e7a72638dd14dc44176fbb76

 

I've seen one of these "the Robin Moth" many years ago. The biggest Moth in the USA. Wing spread 5-7".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyalophora_cecropia

The one I saw was on a limb with wings folded and at first I thought it was a Robin.

 

That’s not real, right!? Please tell me that’s not real

 

That's not that big. Seen bigger.......

Google -------- Giant African Snail
Japanese dropped them all around the Pacific as a food source, known to carry the rat lungworm, Angiostrongylus cantonensis
that can kill you from eating contaminated vegetables and drinking water....

Florida has a eradication program and they are a top rated international pest distributed by shipping containers

 

This group (mob) comes in every evening at 17.30 to get their oats and barley.
Mandurah , Western Australia.

 

"Brood X" Cicadas have emerged in the Eastern USA. I was just up in Washington DC over the weekend, where they say the peak is right now.

The noise they make(a high pitch buzzing) is so loud you can't carry a conversation outdoors. They estimate TRILLIONS of Cicadas have emerged in one the largest, if not THE largest brood to emerge ever.

Cute little fellas, eh?

They are about the size of your thumb. Apparently they are edible, though I cannot personally confirm this.....

For those that do not know Cicadas, they only live for a few weeks, mate, and die. They are not poisonous, nor do they bite or sting(and therefore do not qualify to be Australian). Their progeny burrow into the ground and lie dormant for 17 YEARS before emerging themselves. How they know when to emerge, and all at once, is one of the great mysteries of nature.

 

But they are very annoying so they might qualify as Canadian.
Nastiest bug that has such a long dormant period is the giant mosquito that burrows under ground between flooding periods in the Carolinas.
When groundwater levels rise they burrow back to the surface and spread out over the countryside.
I saw one once that apparently hitched a ride on a truck carrying a load of lumber that was parked across the road. It was on my storm door and from leg tip to leg tip almost covered the lower panel.

 

For those that do know Cicadas
They have a life cycle of more than 17 years
Transformation of the periodical cicada from the mature nymph to the adult
Nearly all cicadas spend years underground as juveniles, before emerging above ground for a short adult stage of several weeks to a few months. The seven periodical cicada species are so named because, in any one location, all members of the population are developmentally synchronized—they emerge as adults all at once in the same year. This periodicity is especially remarkable because their life cycles are so long—13 or 17 years. No other species of cicada in the world (among perhaps 3,000 species) synchronize their development in this way.

 

Just to support my claim they are edible....but still not going to personally prove it....

(note the key advice in very last line)

 

Insects are probably the greatest mass protein source on the planet.

But I think I'll stick to eye fillet and bacon thanks.

 

We have them here also (not in high numbers though) but the loudest bunch of cicadas I've ever heard were in a park in Australia. Deafeningly loud...

 

Better to harvest them as cheap chicken feed. Let the chickens eat the bugs then we eat the chickens, as nature intended.

The Mice in Australia and invasive Capybara in some US states for example could be a cheap source of food for zoo and circus animals such as lions, tigers and wolves. Wolves especially like rodents of all types.

 

I have no great experience apart from the Scottish midge, https://www.highlandtitles.com/blog/midges/

Ruined many a good camping trip etc.