Anyone travelling in Northern Victorie/Southern NSW should be aware of Locusts

petengail · Guru

Anyone travelling in Northern Victorie/Southern NSW should be aware of Locusts

Gerty Dancer · Guru

Geez, you gotta feel sorry for the farmers!!

Happywanderer · The Master

I'm in Echuca. Photos I took yesterday.
They parked themselves all over my car overnight and left behind little shats. I got hit in the mouth with one just before and the dog has brought a couple inside to play with.

pricey43 · Guru

Daughter works with DPI in Mildura. Has been working on Locust rotations for months. Around there they are starting to fly and can't be sprayed once they are flying. Look out here they come!!!!!

milo · Guru

should see the front of dads motorhome, just coverd in it, no idea how to clean it.

keviny6 · Veteran Member

between Wakerie and Comodore hill towards Truro SA they are getting bad as well, had to stop and clean windscreen on Friday last

Happywanderer · The Master

Warm soapy water should do it milo.
I was caught in 30 ks of locust Sept of last year just north of Jerilderie, stopped in town to wash the windscreen and when I got home put the car through the laser car wash, got rid of it all.
Will do the same on Wednesday, payday, to get rid of the shat on there now.

milo · Guru

i dont know if the tardis would fit in a car wash down the road, or where the outside part is with the preassure hoses, not much room there..

Happywanderer · The Master

Thats why I suggested warm soapy water milo. In a bucket, do it at home.

gunadoo · Veteran Member

Although I have had little experience with the blighters in plague props,make sure you cover your radiator to avoid overheating because they can clag it up,a section of medium density shadecloth is fine.Have just come through Quorn,Burra and on to Mildura and they're about without being plague proportions,although as of today,they are in the Echuca/Tongola area supposedly a band of 25 k's and up to 500ms above ground according to the pundits and common sense needs to be used.They reckon that Melbourne could be a target.
If you have not experienced plague locusts..be prepared,you may have almost no visibility,and without protection(well,we should all know this,you know what I mean)we can get ourselves into strife.
Be aware and be careful..they can be a serious threat to travellers let alone our crop growing friends on the land.
Be Safe
David

Gerty Dancer · Guru

Happywanderer wrote:

Warm soapy water should do it milo.

Sorry to be picky, but do you mean soap or car-wash?
They are a bit greasy to get off, soaking for a while might be helpful.

Happywanderer · The Master

Whatever works best Gerty. They are greasy little blighters and leave blood and guts really stuck to the paint work..

I would hose the vehicle first to wet all areas and help loosen them a bit. Then a bucket of warm or hot, what ever you normally use, with soap, being it carwash or something else if necessary.
When all off hose again.
From memory last year I used the brand name car wash that is in a yellow bottle with black lid, can't remember the name. It also has a mate in orange bottle with black lid that is the polish.

Firefly · Guru

Try spraying it with WD40 to soften them. smile

Thats just one site, google "WD40 uses."

http://my.homewithgod.com/mkcathy/household/WD40.html

kevinsterra · Newbie

hi milo, the best way to remove them blood guts and all. All that is required is to spray the area with windex walk in side and make a cuppa, when finished you just wash them off eazy. All the show and shine people do this trick and it really works just like magic.

yours Kevinsterra.