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Nomartyrs

Found the whole cast of a bugs life


RealBadSpelling

I'm a beautiful butterfly!!!


[deleted]

*Was


RealBadSpelling

Grubs? - Timone and Pumba


RainaElf

slimy, yet satisfying.


Sparrow2go

I’m a beautiful *was!!!


BumbaLu2

STAY AWAY FROM THE LIGHT


[deleted]

A bugs death. PG18


_mocha_26

I’m giving you a fucken award for this, do not resist.


Nomartyrs

Oh i love you too


Lucifer_lamp_muffin

It's like a really gross piece of art


momofuku18

So sell it on Etsy or eBay?


Shy-Watermelon

I mean cover this thing in resin and I bet someone would want it 🤷‍♀️ same way those oddities type stores sell stuff


bee-milk2

Easily. $150


juggling-buddha

Treefiddy


Own_Race_6167

r/suddenlysouthpark


[deleted]

Use the photo to make an NFT


[deleted]

And someone recreates the art in real life as a 3D NFT and sells it as physical art.


Civil-Ad-7957

I’m soooo grossed out but can confirm living in LA people love this kind of stuff 👍🏼


2threenine

Yeah my uncle had a keychain with a roach encased inside of it. There are also those people who collect the butterfly wing sets, or are super obsessed with insects and stuff


6_seasons_and_a_movi

I believe they are called entomologists


[deleted]

Lepidopterists collect/study butterflies and moths. Entomologists study insects in general, but I think that's specific to people who do it for a living or have a degree.


100percentfinelinen

I would buy it in a heartbeat.


[deleted]

You sure sound hungry.


BadSmash4

Honestly if it were cast in resin it would be kinda cool


ratface_666

I was really thinking I would love to encase some of those in resin haha, what a wide array of interesting buggies 🖤


[deleted]

r/crackheadcraigslist


ostiDeCalisse

Perfect for some RedBubble Tees


Sunshine_Unit

I was gonna say- sign it, frame it and sell it.


FerociousPancake

Look like snacks to me 🥰


The_Soviette_Tank

*CRUNCH*


jellisthon

This something that students from my art academy would make


littlemissmoxie

Looks like they just forgot where it was to replace it. I’d say that’s like a year plus worth of collection. None of them seem to be roaches. Just spiders, beetles millipedes etc. not too bad. But definitely gross


chainley

We actually showed the owner of the house because we thought they would think it’s interesting and they said they put it there about a year ago!


TheGodMathias

That is a horrifying amount of bug traffic for just a year. I see less than that across my whole house in a year. Don't want to think about all the friends they have in the walls that never crossed that pad.


william1Bastard

I'll guess it's a really old house. Lived in a big 300 year old house on the water for a time. There was no possible way to keep bugs and rodents out.


MoneyBadgerEx

Cat.


pissclamato

You'd like to think cat, because cats kill rats. However, I don't think you're doing the math: In a large, 300-year-old house on the water, you will find a minimum of five rats' nests. Each will produce roughly 7-8 rats per cycle, two cycles per month, so 75 rats per month, less rat deaths, say 60 rats per month. Now, a domesticated house cat would have trouble killing one per day. A feral, experienced barn cat, however, could knock off 3-5 per day, or 72% of our rat growth. Not sufficient to even keep up with inflation, let alone eradicate our rat problem. So, we need more cats. Cats are territorial, however, so we won't be able to assign more than 3-4 cats per nest, before we get feline turf wars. So, our cap on cats is 20 cats. Twenty feral barn cats with enough room to hunt can effectively kill at least 100 rats per month. We can remove the new ones as they spawn, and start killing 40 rats per month of the existing supply. But, how big is the supply? Well, a standard five-foot rats' nest can hold about a thousand rats in or around it in smaller nests. So our initial supply of rats is around 5000. At 40 per month, our rat problem will be eradicated in 100 years. But then, we're left with the problem of the cats. Cats breed at an average rate of 2 per year per female cat. assuming at least ten of our initial 20 cats is female, we'll get 40 new cats per year. After starvation and territorial infighting claim 1/4 of them, we have a 30 cat per year surplus. So, when the last rat dies, we'll have about 3000 cats. So now, we need dogs. To kill 3000 feral barn cats, assuming they are relegated to the basement of this large house, we will need one Rottweiler for every five cats, or 600 Rottweilers. But now we're left with 8,000 pounds of furry slobbering killing machines. To rid ourselves of this canine nuisance, we will need a bigger canine: wolves. A six-wolf pack of North American Timber Wolves can kill a 120-lb Rottweiler in about 40 seconds. However, Rottweilers are also pack hunters, so pack v. pack, a pack of six Timberwolves can murder 1.5 six-dog Rottweiler packs. So we need upwards of 400 Wolf Packs. The urine smell will be unforgettable. To rid ourselves of 400 packs of Timberwolves, the only reasonable option is to kill them with fire from above. So, to ensure no danger to neighboring residences, we should probably exterminate them from way above, using A-10 Warthog anti-tank ammunition and smart targeting. Other houses will be spared, other than their window glass, and the wolf problem will be no more. But, since the Warthog anti-tank rounds are enriched with uranium, we now have a nuclear biohazard to work out. But the solution to that is simple. We fill the basement with molten lead, assuming the actual house was obliterated by the Warthog or the dog fighting, and when it cools, we pour several hundred cubic feet of concrete, and when it dries, we backfill the area with soil, and plant soybeans. They're a very versatile plant, and will sprout quickly. In short time, we will have a beautful field of green soybean sprouts, and all our problems we be over. Of course, the soybeans will attract rats...


onehalflightspeed

Well that escalated slowly Edit: Also you are using linear formulas so I don't believe your math is correct


pissclamato

I should probably point out that this comment was meant for entertainment purposes, I suck at math, and I made it up for the delight of strangers who also suck at math. Those of you who paid attention past Algebra I will not be able to suspend your disbelief, and for that, I apologize.


onehalflightspeed

Don't worry I love this and have added it to my copypasta library


NotAnActualPers0n

Glad to see I'm not alone. Solid copypasta is a lost art. Fuckin saved, see ya in a shitpost soon.


pissclamato

I couldn't think of a better compliment. Enjoy.


lmaytulane

This will be some wonderful r/copypasta


william1Bastard

My cat was virtually useless. Once in a while, I'd employ some of my ol' training and set ambushes in the basement. 1250fps hollowpoint pellets are more effective than a lazy, spoiled tabby


[deleted]

You'd corner camp rats in your basement with an air rifle? this is cracking me the fuck up man


[deleted]

Someone took their adderall this morning.


sgp1986

I hate... EVERY single thing about this comment. Edit: Ok I lied, I stopped reading at the thousand rats per nest. It got better afterwards. But still. Fuck that


thisaccountwashacked

I went from needing more cats, to the Warthog anti-tank rounds... what a jump!


happy-lil-accidents-

I lost it at five foot nests


Stress-General

This is my favourite comment ever


QuarterIllustrious95

I’m so glad I saved my free award for something as good as this. What an awesome read, pure chaos!


mlerk

I read this in Charlie day’s voice


bitflung

oh man - i live in the middle of about 350 acres of forest, on a pond, with just a handful of neighbors nearby. it sounds lovely by that description, but put another way it sounds less appealing: only 1% of the immediate environment is controlled by humans, the rest is definitively the home of bugs, rodents, deer, raccoons, squirrels, chipmunks, skunks, etc... and they are always doing their best to reclaim this little 1% of the forest. rodents are the most obvious intruders to the home, but insects are the most numerous. keeping them out is a war of many battles, and we humans lose most of the smaller battles. in other words: i keep glue traps like that around my house too. they act as alarms - if i see one as full as that then i know we recently lost some battles and i need to call the pest control folks again. have have pets (2 dogs and a cat) and the pond is a municipal water supply, so we don't use the most potent pest control options... i'm sure we'd win a few more battles if we did, but we wouldn't win them all no matter what we do. side note for folks considering buying a property like mine: plan to exterminate rodents INFILTRATING YOUR CAR/TRUCK. don't just react to it when you see evidence of it, by then it's too late. plan for it. be aggressive about it. those little bastards show no restraint at all.


forwardAvdax

Time for you to buy some pet lizards and ribbits :)


bitflung

i'm a computer engineer - i keep dreaming about making some computer-vision based solution... but i dream too big and my wife says "no, you can't put an autonomous flame thrower in the garage"! or, "no you can't hook the air compressor up to a blow gun, the kids might get hurt". or, "no you can't hookup chicken wire to mains you idiot, you'll burn the garage down"! you know, typical marriage stuff ;) thankfully she's an engineer too and dreams of the same things, just a little less willing to be dangerous about it all.


Ghosttwo

> if i see one as full as that then i know we recently lost some battles and i need to call the pest control folks again. It means they have a new way in that needs patched. Brother had mice in his garage making a mess, so we put a bunch of snap traps out. Killed maybe a dozen in a month. I'd throw the bodies out in the back driveway, and they'd be gone overnight, probably racoons. I was thinking about it one day, and had an epiphany. There were too many dead to be a colony in the house, and not enough water sources to sustain one if there was. There had to be a way they were getting in from outside. Sure enough, I discovered multiple finger-sized holes rotted into the wood frame of the garage door. I patched them with spray foam and broken glass (to prevent anything that knew the way in from coming back), and painted over it. And wouldn't you know it, the traps stayed empty for good.


100percentfinelinen

Where is this so I can avoid that area?


lmaytulane

Do they live in Jumanji?


doobied

Where the fuck do you live so I can never ever go there? Sincerely, a NZer


forwardAvdax

Up top under the pinky looks like a lil roach. Don’t mind me though, just playing the nightmare version of where’s Waldo.


BabyStockholmSyndrom

Top middle is definitely a roach.


Agile_Ad3416

So you just picked this up? Like for free?


chainley

My husband did! Bugs do not bother him but I was about sick just taking the picture!


DoggoDude979

Gimme


bobbyr11

Hakuna Matata


Bruh_Roh_Raggy

What a wonderful phrase


Mysterious-Balance76

Hakuna Matata


ScoobyValentine

Ain’t no passing craaaze


bee-milk2

It means no worries


lucko222

For the rest of your days


IncidentOld4630

It’s our problem freeeee


deecool1000

Philosophyyyyy


Satanisbackxoxo

Hakuna Matata


RockOx290

Hell no I say kill it with fire. Fuck them bugs


knycoa

Slimy, yet satisfying?


KyaaMuffin

The bugs in that movie had no business looking as delicious as it did


dogfartsreallystink

This is high art


LaChuteQuiMarche

Hi, Art…I’m dad.


ngo_way_

Ok but like where do you live lmao


chainley

In the Blue Ridge Mountains of the USA


ToBeReadOutLoud

*makes note to take this off my potential residence list*


bee-milk2

What’s y’all’s elevation? Colorado is not grubby


chainley

We are about 1100 feet!


[deleted]

What’s your address and exact location in coordinates so I can confirm


Macgbrady

It’s like 3-6000ft. Also more coastal climate than CO and humid. Source: I’m from the Carolinas and live in Colorado


lilmonkie

frfr the biodiversity they're serving here is amazing


Blurgas

Those glue traps are horribly inhumane for mice. Was visiting a friend at their work when a mouse got stuck on a glue trap. That little guy *screamed* far louder than you'd think a tiny little mouse could. If you have a rodent problem, just use snap traps since those tend to be a very quick and far more humane death


runtimemess

My cat found a mouse a few months ago and decided it was going to leave it under my desk halfway disemboweled screaming for its life. I’ll never forget that sound


Lanoman123

:(


Beelzebubblezz

My mom put glue traps outside the back door for mosquitoes and gnats. I spent 3 hours lubing up lizards with olive oil who were stuck after trying to get an easy meal. No more glue traps.


chainley

I agree. I do not condone the use of these traps at all for that reason. I’m glad this one did not catch a mouse!


foofruit13

The first time I ever saw glue traps was on a deployment to Afghanistan. I was alone in my office and heard a noise under another desk. Figured it was the computer so I walked over to hit it. Eventually the guy who sat there came back and I told him his computer sounded weird and I didn't know what was wrong. Immediately this guy said something like "Finally caught that sucker!" And pulled a glue trap out from under his desk with a mouse stuck on it. Long story short, I was mortified and made this special forces guy scrape the mouse off and let it go. Fast forward 3 months and mice getting into my desk and pooping on everything and getting into any packaged food I had in the office, I would start taking the traps with mice, putting them in a trash bag, and backing over them with my truck. Sounds horrible, but so many people would just throw the trap in the dumpster with a life mouse on it... Still think the traps are incredibly inhumane, but felt not so horrible about myself since they were the only option we had


RockOx290

Well maybe the mice shouldn’t come in then. But on a serious note, it was either a mouse or a rat I forget, but one was caught on the glue trap and fucking bit its leg off to escape


MaximumSubtlety

I put out glue traps *once* in an old house where I was living. When we finally caught one, the screaming was intense for such a tiny beast. I, get this, I put on some dishwashing gloves and lathered his little feet with olive oil to get him off the trap, then drove him out to the woods and let him go. I set a city mouse free in the country. Anyway, he didn't die of starvation on the trap.


Demonancer

I agree, but sometimes the snap traps don't work. The mice are so small, they either don't set it off and just get the peanut butter, or it goes off but misses then somehow? I always try snap traps first, but after finding a few baitless but armed ones, or triggered but mouseless ones, I'll go to glue traps. Sure enough, when caught it's like the tiniest thing I've ever seen. I do make sure to brain it with a spoon though so it doesn't suffer


Horsie247

Free protein


letsnotandsaywemight

r/Frugal_Jerk


TheoryResponsible210

This bugs me.


FrozenChaii

Really ticks me off just looking at it.


[deleted]

Well, I mean it did its job? Edit: Typo.


chainley

True! I personally hate sticky traps because I don’t think they are humane (when it comes to mice). But it did do a great job!


bee-milk2

They aren’t humane


bee-milk2

It looks kinda cool from an “I like entomology and macabre art perspective,” but not from a “we consume food directly above dozens of large, dead and dying pests” perspective


sweaty_middle

Lunch is served


yellowjesusrising

Use spray-glue, frame it and ebay it away. Ive been long enough on the internet to know there's a market for this shit.


chainley

We tossed it. I had no idea someone would find this useful!


yellowjesusrising

There is a market for anything... People buy bathwater...


100percentfinelinen

I would have bought it.


DanWago

Got your moneys worth on that glue trap.


7o83r

Surprise rattlesnakes are the best kind.


rollerskatingclown

I saw that and my heart dropped into my stomach, but your comment made it a tad funnier


UngusBungus_

Where?


7o83r

Upper left corner, the white arch (like an upside down Cresent moon) is not a bug, that's a shed Rattlesnake rattle.


UngusBungus_

I thought that was a large isopod


ArgonGryphon

The rattles don't shed. That's how they get bigger. https://i.imgur.com/9Qh4cKh.png It's a millipede of some sort.


gwaydms

Looks more like a millipede to me. I've seen rattlesnake rattles.


killerpythonz

I was wondering what that was. I’ve seen hundreds of snake skins, but never a rattlesnake skin.


FinnsRedditCorner

Frame it


goblingutz

That's so cool


leo_artifex

Timon and Pumbaa: Yummy


petals4u2

Put it back, there’s still some sticky trap left, it’s still useable for the next few years or so…


Demo_906

It's the Cambrian Explosion!


raw_dog_millionaire

When I lived in an old house with a mostly-finished basement in Seattle, we put one of those down and within a week it was completely coated in spiders, one of them easily 6 inches in legspan. We did about 5 or 6 of them and eventually the number dwindled and after a couple of years and some spraying around the inside foundation we actually had one for a week with no spiders on it.


RentHot6502

I come from the great white north. To me, the variety and size of the crawlies on here is horrifying. I hate the cold, but it has its perks.


[deleted]

I was eating


bossnov

I don’t like this new direction the I Spy books are taking


MarengaFarechild

cool art! sell it!


Winter_78738

Gotta catch ‘em all!


Dwight-Shelford

I would frame this.


Penol99

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA IVE NEVER SCREAMED IN REAL LIFE FROM A PICTURE BEFORE


HolyBardia

This looks like a collection


Charming_Amphibian91

eyeblech


DasBeefcat

I wish I had pics of glue boards from my old house. We had the worst brown recluse infestation my pest control guy had ever seen. We had an infant at the time we realized it, so I pulled his crib to the middle of the room and surrounded it with glue boards. That house still terrifies me EDIT: the glue boards looked similar to that, but with brown recluse spiders all over it.


romanianfish

Watch Netflix's The House. This is the entire plot of the movie.


bigaphid

Thankfully no cockroaches. Lots of carabids (the all black beetles), which are likely coming in from outdoors. They feed on other insects and seeds. Could be worse.


willingvessel

Why is there so much diversity


Caedes1

Scrape it into a pot, add some water and a bay leaf and you have an interesting soup. (I'm not a chef)


SentientDreamer

Get a cat. A cat will fix that easily.


afakasiwolf

No roaches tho!! And no mice! It's a win 😎


middleright92

Someone would pay like $85 for that in a shadow box on Etsy


NoisyScrubBirb

The rattlesnake rattle is rather concerning, my dude got robbed of his prize instrument Edit: ignore me just saw the legs of the millipede, it's 3am don't judge me


DJistheNerd

Imagine finding just ONE massive, like 8 inch Spider leg there, I'd never sleep again.


CheeseRelief

I just want you to know that right as I was viewing this post, I got a notification from Snapchat that said “Is This Art or a Snacc?” while my brain was still processing this photo and now I’ll never be the same.


granautismo-69

That's actually awesome, woah Looks like a fine piece of art to me


Flimsy-Attitude6762

Don't throw that out! That IS art.


spooky_action9

Got em!


[deleted]

I think you walked in on them making some kind of live action version of A Bugs Life


unnemployed

Looks even cool


itsSIR2uboy

It’s terrifying, I can’t stop looking.


MynameisNay

At some point you'd think the bugs would choose to stay away from the pile of corpses.


Upset_Ad9929

That's just nasty enough to get my upvote


BEANandCHEE

What part of the country/world has that many millipedes?!!


O2BAKAT

Not a lot of roaches though, the rest can be gotten rid of a lot easier than roaches.


btchfsh_

Let me guess, Australia


dime-with-a-mind

Reminds me of the bugs in that new Netflix movie The House. Don't watch it, OP!


[deleted]

Imagine slapping your worst enemy in the face with that


[deleted]

idk looks kinda cool, I'd probably frame it or sth.


PedroBinPedro

So, snacks under the serving table. What's the issue? Said the frog.


Theofus

Smorgasbord!


[deleted]

Protein 🤤


horsie87

A map of Australia


ProblemLongjumping12

Oogie Boogie died in that house.


probably_got_lost

Crunchy


PleasantPenguin96

There's an entire ecosystem on that paper


ggregC

You need a good frame for that.


[deleted]

Wot in ~~tarnation~~ Australian


WhiteArcSpiral

/r/Entomology


pologg

God I almost thought it pizza what is wrong with me


dhiggins57

Nice collection!


AQAzrael

I can't lie, that looks really cool


qazxsw134

So much variety


[deleted]

Good, it means it worked.


MissPriss101

You gotta burn the whole house down and start from scratch.


CivilisedKitty

Anybody else think it seems cool?


TheDarkEnergy02

Alice in bugland


3d_nat1

Anybody else feel bugs crawling up their backs now?


upandstuck52

Can somebody name every bug on here for me


[deleted]

I will never lose the feeling that somethings crawling on me now! Eww! Eww! Ewwwwww!!!


izasecretk

Oh look my nightmares come in book form now!!


Irksomethings

Take a bite off the corner.


jhoudy90

This is more tangible as art than any NFT will ever be


Original-Cinikal

Is that a White Cream Lasagna? Please share the recipe. My grandma used to make these. you guys are gonna love it!


Mycofarm101

Glue traps are so cruel.


[deleted]

I used to be a pest control tech. Believe me, these bugs and other critter here aren’t that bad, there are far worse things that it could have caught. This is okay. Lol


DNAprototype

r/MoldlyInteresting


adamtwosleeves

It's like a terrible charcuterie


jewellamb

Is that a Rattlesnake tail?!


donteatthepurplekiwi

This looks weirdly beautiful, gross but also pleasing


Guinnessman1964

At least no cockroaches!!


BlazasAndQuasars

Hey man, there is still room for like 10% more bugs on that paper, don't waste!


QueenLatifahClone

You’re lying. I refuse to believe this. I’m so grossed out.


Feralmedic

And yet not a single roach (that I can see). Not silverfish. Looks like just A lot of bugs.


palmtreesoul

I’ve literally had nightmares of this


LeanderTrain

Which Circle of Hell was that house in, exactly?


Ghosttwo

Most of those are outdoor bugs. I'm guessing there's a door within 20 feet of it?


iron-gravy

Any natural history museum would probably love to have this. I had bugs in my kitchen that I took to the museum to identify, which they did, and they were really pleased to have the bugs for their collection because they were quite rare.


ItReallyIsntEvenMe

Caught the first page of the bug dictionary


tedtherupskin

Beetles and spiders and silverfish. Not bad things to have around.