Freezing grasshoppers, and reviving them with electricity


When I was a kid, I lived in a place where grasshoppers were common, so they were the natural victim of our scientific curiosity. Once, I put a grasshopper in the freezer, took it out nearly an hour later, and used the electric train transformer to more-or-less revive it.

In retrospect, I think the grasshopper never got fully frozen - just frostbitten - but my friends and I were impressed enough to start a Frankenstein-like fad in the neighborhood. We tried other things too - notably efforts to do heart transplants on grasshoppers - but were foiled by the ridiculously-small sizes of their hearts. Nothing was as much fun as freezing grasshoppers.

If only our parents were more understanding of all the insects in the freezer....
(Perv With A Dog had his eyes pecked out by scrub jays on, Fri 10 Aug 2012, 19:27, 1 reply)

My friend used to do this with craneflies,
or jenny-meggies as we called them. He froze them overnight, though, so never had any success reviving them with a square battery and 2 wires :P

He also attempted to make his own alcohol at age 15. Had to dump te result down a drain, stank his whole street out for ages.
( baw__bag contains traces of nuts on, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 2:12, closed)