Lon Stowell wrote:

There are organic gardening sites claiming that garlic
extract spray has some deterrent effect on grasshoppers,
however the effect doesn't appear to be toxic. Merely
that the non-gourmand grasshoppers would be encouraged
to seek other foods. Strongly suspect that this tactic
is useless on italian and/or asian grasshoppers.

How about invoking St. Urho?

There *are* several recipes for sauteing the little buggers
in garlic butter.

Garlic Butter Fried Grasshoppers
1/4 cup butter
6 cloves garlic, crushed
1 cup cleaned insects*
Melt butter in fry pan. Reduce heat. Sauté garlic in butter for 5
minutes. Add insects. Continue sautéing for 10 - 15
minutes, stirring occasionally. From Orkin
http://www.faculty.de.gcsu.edu/~cbad...thinsects.html

Charles Wm. "every thread is a food thread" Dimmick

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