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  • From: "Bill Russell" <shaman@penn.com>
  • To: <nafex@egroups.com>
  • Subject: Re: [nafex] gypsy moth caviar & Weight Watchers
  • Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 10:04:59 -0500

Considering the amount of time and energy required, it's easier to snag a
bag of bugs than to bag a rabbit, at least in my garden.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lucky Pittman" <Lucky.Pittman@murraystate.edu>
To: <nafex@egroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 9:33 AM
Subject: Re: [nafex] gypsy moth caviar & Weight Watchers


> At 10:17 PM 01/16/2001 -0500, Bill wrote:
> >Maybe the early Native Americans knew something we don't? Should we eat
our
> >orchard and garden insect pests instead of spraying poisons around?
>
> Well, Bill, I suspect that would be the ultimate in integrated pest
management!
>
> I read something, somewhere, in the last week or so (May have been on one
> of the insect recipe websites), regarding consumption of dried, salted
> locusts(migratory grasshoppers) by indigenous folks living around the
Great
> Salt Lake - seems there was a recent swarm of them that was studied by
> entomologists - it was very easy to gather very large quantities of 'food'
> in a short period of time
> Here, I found it: http://www.hollowtop.com/finl_html/huntgathers.htm
> An interesting read.
> More neat stuff & links at the Primitive Technology website, if anyone's
> interested.
>
>
> Lucky Pittman
> USDA Zone 6
> Hopkinsville, KY
>
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