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Old 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!
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Old 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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Old 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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Old 08-08-2006, 11:52 AM   #4
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...

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*runs away before they get him too*
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Old 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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Old 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.)
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Old 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.

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Old 08-08-2006, 01:38 PM   #8
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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.
Isn't that a kind of fetish? Women in high heels crushing little animals?
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Old 08-08-2006, 01:51 PM   #9
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Mammals squish much better. Ask Godzilla.
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Old 08-08-2006, 02:18 PM   #10
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First one looks like someone found a bike and a can of spray paint.
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Old 08-08-2006, 04:21 PM   #11
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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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Old 08-08-2006, 04:29 PM   #12
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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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Old 08-08-2006, 05:55 PM   #13
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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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Old 08-08-2006, 10:01 PM   #14
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Wonder if you could gather enough of that silk to make ya a shirt
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Old 08-08-2006, 10:26 PM   #15
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Funny as the images at the Swedish website are dated mid June of 2006, everything here in TX is dead by then from the heat. Few bugs but lots of heat and humidity!

I learned some Swedish today.

For JPEG files...
Normala = Normal
Enorma = Enormous = BIG FUCKING FILES!!!

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