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I'm guessing "prawn" is local slang for some insect, because I'd only ever heard it refer to the seafood (like shrimp) or those aliens in District 9

[dematz]

According to the wikipedia article they jump and shoot ink and are generally very annoying, to the extent that there's an april fools day story that they were genetically modified...

one of the sources has some funny stories/comics/attestations to the horror of prawns https://ourfiresidestories.com/the-parktown-prawn-chronicles...

[SideburnsOfDoom]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parktown_prawn

> The Parktown prawn or African king cricket

The term used in District 9 also comes from this

[smcl]

Oh man the pictures on the wiki don't do it justice - I checked for one with scale and they're a fair size!