Comments on: Two-Striped Grasshopper

By: Tim Eisele

Tim Eisele — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:07:46 +0000

Hmm. Yes, we do have juneberries nearby, there are a whole bunch of them just out back. I'll have to give this a try. . . And thanks for the link to the Food Insects Newsletter site.

By: Edward Vielmetti

Edward Vielmetti — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 02:57:56 +0000

Grasshoppers apparently go well with juneberries, which you should have somewhere nearby – I snagged a recipe in my annual juneberry roundup

http://vielmetti.typepad.com/vacuum/2008/06/2008-urban-berr.html

a find from The Food Insects Newsletter v7n3

http://www.hollowtop.com/finl_html/amerindians.htm

describing the “Mormon Cricket” Anabrus simplex and the harvest method involving a series of trenches and fire to drive the bugs in the right direction. The recipe runs something like this:

“Edwin Bryant15 (circa 1848) provided one of the few assessments of grasshopper palatability by a white. following an encounter with Utah Indians, an occasion when three women appeared, “bringing baskets containing a substance, which, upon examination, we ascertained to be service-berries, crushed to a jam and mixed with pulverized grasshoppers. This composition being dried in the sun until it becomes hard, is what may be called the ‘fruitcake’ of these poor children of the desert.”

By: Michelle

Michelle — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 21:31:58 +0000

Thanks for checking out my site K T Cat, and thanks for passing it along.

By: K T Cat

K T Cat — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 16:07:27 +0000

Thanks for posting that link to Michelle’s site. It’s wonderful. I’ll send that link to my 16 year old son who wants to pursue a career in film. I don’t think that’s a great career choice and Michelle shows how you can mix a beloved hobby with a paying career with a future. Fantastic.

By: K T Cat

K T Cat — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 15:38:03 +0000

Imagine yourself a farmer in the 1800s. You’d be coming up with every conceivable way of killing off these pests. When my father was a boy, growing up in the farm country of Wisconsin, he was paid 5 cents for every pair of gopher ears he brought in. He became quite the little gopher hunter.