'Waiter, there's a moth in my soup': Aussies eat plague of pests

0 Comments | AFP, October, 2007

SYDNEY (AFP) — Australian restaurants have hit on a radical solution to an unusually large seasonal invasion of moths -- they've taken a tip from Aborigines and put the pests on the menu.

Millions of bogong moths have descended on Canberra and Sydney over the past fortnight, gathering in swarms on windowsills, clogging air-conditioning ducts and swooping on unsuspecting pedestrians.

Strong winds have blown the moths off course as they make their annual migration from the heat of Queensland state to the cool caves of the Snowy Mountains in the south.

Bureaucrats at Parliament House in Canberra say the moth invasion is the worst they have seen.

"We've had fire alarms going off, the moths set off detectors," parliamentary services secretary Hillary...