"SusieThompson" wrote in message
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: In message , Janet Baraclough
: writes
:
: I'm still collecting
: seaweed in vast amounts, despite the recent discouraging news about it
: being irradiated by Sellafield so a possible health hazard for veg
: growing on the west coast of Scotland. Too late, I've already dug in
: tons of it.Those little brown hoppers who live in seaweed keep coming
: indoors on the dog's feet or mine, and leaping round the sitting room
: carpet at night..looks like a slum infestation.
:
: Hello Janet
:
: Many apologies for the long delay in following up your posting. I've had
: a very busy few days, and today I can take time to catch with everything
: again. Thanks very much for all your good advice regarding tree
: planting, etc. The three tiny potted-up larch seedlings which I thought
: might be OK will now be planted out in the woodland around the house
: where we're living for the time being.
:
: Regarding "those little brown hoppers" that regularly infest your
: sitting room - as they come up from the beach on the weed, do you think
: that they could be relatives of prawns, shrimps or suchlike? I'm sure
: that I've seen them before on the beach in *vast* numbers. Now, if they
: are by any chance of good fortune related to crustacea, they might just
: turn out to be edible, although I've no idea just how many of them would
: be needed to make a forkful?
:
: If you are interested, I have a small book called "Why not eat
: insects?". It was written by Vincent M Holt and first published in
: 1885. I think that the following excerpt gives a good idea of the
: book's contents. "I myself also knew a labourer , some years ago, in
: the West of England, who was regularly in the habit of picking up and
: eating any small white slugs which he happened to see, just as he would
: have picked wild strawberries."!
:
: I can help you with a recipe for wood louse sauce for serving with fish,
: as they are probably the nearest in size to your hoppers. There are
: also many suggestions for most common garden pests, caterpillars, slugs
: and snails among them. If you think that the wood louse recipe would
: help you to make good use of your unexpected source of protein, do let
: me know and I can either email it to you directly, or post it here on
: the 'urghhhh' newsgroup.
:
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Oh, do post it here so that we can all enjoy it :O))

K