Tonight I woke up, hearing strange rustling sounds outside. I didn’t manage to identify them, didn’t see anything, and eventually fell asleep again. Then in the morning I saw seven or eight huge grasshoppers, sitting from the outside on the mosquito net of one of our windows. I had not seen so many in one place before, but I thought they were simply hiding there from the rain which was pouring down heavily at that moment.
But then the rain stopped, and suddenly whole CLOUDS of huge grasshoppers started to appear, by hundreds! I had *never* seen anything remotely like this… at moments the air was just completely filled with flying grasshoppers!
I guess this is what the biblical locust plague of Egypt must have looked like…
A bit later, clouds of local women and excited children also appeared, collecting the grasshoppers in bags and boxes.
A grasshopper stir-fry for the whole street tonight!
PS. It seems that this invasion was indeed long-awaited - here is a lovely glimpse into the traditional (and modern) grasshopper (or nsenene) collection in Uganda.
But then the rain stopped, and suddenly whole CLOUDS of huge grasshoppers started to appear, by hundreds! I had *never* seen anything remotely like this… at moments the air was just completely filled with flying grasshoppers!
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| Some of our visitors |
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| All those white things in the air are grasshoppers - and many more you can't actually see |
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| Our neighbours' house AFTER collecting grasshoppers from there |
I guess this is what the biblical locust plague of Egypt must have looked like…
A bit later, clouds of local women and excited children also appeared, collecting the grasshoppers in bags and boxes.
A grasshopper stir-fry for the whole street tonight!
PS. It seems that this invasion was indeed long-awaited - here is a lovely glimpse into the traditional (and modern) grasshopper (or nsenene) collection in Uganda.
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