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08-08-2006, 10:36 AM | #1 |
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8/8/2006: Swedish caterpillar infestation
axlrosen points to Boing Boing which points to this horrible image gallery of caterpillar infestation in Sweden. I'm so very sorry to present you with the images that will fill your nights with terror for the rest of the week. Entire bicycles and trees are coated with the cocoons. The trees are stripped bare by this stuff, but apparently they come back. A Boing Boing correspondent says this is probably the "Bird-cherry Ermine butterfly" but Wikipedia suggests it's more of a moth. What it'll look like when they're done. Not much improvement! |
08-08-2006, 10:43 AM | #2 |
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Next time I get too hot at work I will come back to those images. I didn't think I had any problem with caterpillars, but that has given me the cold shudders.
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08-08-2006, 10:57 AM | #3 |
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tent caterpillars are fun to eradicate with a can of Lysol and a Bic lighter...
edit: for example...
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08-08-2006, 11:52 AM | #4 |
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... ... *runs away before they get him too*
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08-08-2006, 12:04 PM | #5 |
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The bike/tree picture from far away is actually pretty cool. Till you get closer and see the creepy crawlies under the seat. Maybe it's a Terry 'Butterfly' bike seat...
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08-08-2006, 12:21 PM | #6 |
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Bad Memories
When I was a kid, our neighbors had a caterpillar infestation. Unfortunately, the little critters don't respect fence lines and that made for an entire summer spent avoiding the back yard. I can still remember trying to walk through the yard without stepping on any. Impossible. Squish, squish, squish.
But it beats the frog infestation my father remembers from his childhood. (Full body shudder.) |
08-08-2006, 12:43 PM | #7 |
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Once upon a time, approximately 7 years ago, I drove up to Tarpon Springs with my boss for a meeting with an apartment complex owner. It was a rainy day which is not unusual here in Florida. When we pulled into the parking lot of the apartment complex, we suddenly realized the dark pavement was moving! A closer look revealed that the entire lot as well as the grass and tree branches were blanketed with tiny tree frogs (about thumbnail sized). There was not a square foot anywhere that didn't have hopping, squirming, squishy little frogs covering it.
He pulled up as close to the front door as he could get, and I gingerly tiptoed across the frogs, mangling quite a few in the process. It was the most horrible, disgusting walk of my life. I'll never forget the crunch and 'sploosh' sounds as well as the squashing sensation under my high heeled pumps. Stormie
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08-08-2006, 01:38 PM | #8 | |
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08-08-2006, 01:51 PM | #9 |
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Mammals squish much better. Ask Godzilla.
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08-09-2006, 03:59 PM | #10 | |
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One summer while I was working at our baseball stadium we had an infestation. I am not sure why, but the entire area was covered with them. I think it had rained or something and they were looking for shelter and they say the bright lights on at the stadium and swarmed it. I could not walk without crushing many of them, and even when I managed to miss them there were already crushed bodies ready to squish under my shoes. The only good thing about it was I was wearing athletic shoes and so they didn't touch my feet... but it was so disgusting to feel the nastiness under my shoes!!! *shudders*
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08-08-2006, 02:18 PM | #11 |
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First one looks like someone found a bike and a can of spray paint.
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08-08-2006, 04:21 PM | #12 |
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That's one bicycle seat I don't wish I was. C'mon guys, you know what I'm saying.
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08-08-2006, 04:29 PM | #13 |
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I've seen this movie. Everyone comes out of pods and starts killing the normal people!
I saw the bike pic before I'd paid any attention to the thread title, and I thought I was looking at another strange art installation.
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08-08-2006, 10:53 PM | #14 | |
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08-08-2006, 05:55 PM | #15 |
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That first one looked Photoshopped to me, especially around the wheels and spokes. Wasn't till I saw the close-ups that I believed it.
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