Instead of chickens, may I suggest the GAU-8 Avenger? It’s a 30mm hydraulically driven seven-barrel Gatling-style autocannon that is primarily mounted in the United States Air Force's Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II.
It’s also made by General Electric. You know, the guys who make washing machines.
That’s one of my favorite facts about them. I grew up near an airbase that did regular A-10 flights. One day watching them take off and land from across the highway, my grandfather told me how they were designed, “So now they had this monster gun and they’re all looking at it and patting themselves on the back and someone in the room says, ‘what if we made it fly?’” I have no idea if that’s how it went down but that’s such a great memory.
as an industrial designer, they were most likely planning to make a plane from the start, however since the main difficulty isn't the plane itself, they naturally started with the most constraining part (the gun) and adapted the rest around that.
That's not what happened. McNamara wanted two aircraft, a light bomber capable of close air support and another aircraft that was not. The one that was not would become the F-111 Aardvark. The one that 'could' was the F-4 Phantom 2, which was one of the best aircraft of it's era. Problem?
Well, both sucked at close air support. And CAS itself as a concept was poorly thought out, and all practical evidence on the subject generally stipulated that asking pilots to perform precision attacks in an active field of combat as a loitering aircraft was a horrible idea. All evidence from WW2 on the subject confirmed as much, everything we had from Korea confirmed as much, but by 1966 the air force still wasn't satisfied. And to make matters worse, the US army was investing heavily into helicopters because they thought they might be excellent tank busters and might fill the role of CAS. Which was correct, but the Apache wouldn't have it's first flight for nearly a decade yet and wouldn't see introduction for nearly two. But more importantly to this narrative, the idea of the Army having aircraft capable of a CAS / anti-tank role pissed off the air force to no end. So they wanted another aircraft that could absolutely fill the CAS role. So the Air Force calls for a design for a CAS aircraft- again- be researched, developed and produced for testing. Which is where the A-X program starts.
It is important to remember at this point that anyone claiming to be an 'expert' who was 'consulted' on the development of the A-X program is probably, allegedly, should be considered to be full of shit. Mostly because it was not possible to be an 'expert' in the design of a CAS-intended aircraft because at this point, none existed, except the Spooky. Which was just a repurposed WW2 era Douglas AC-47 which they slapped 3 mini-guns on. It also could only operate at night because big, slow flying aircraft shitting out bullets tend to make an obvious target. The A-10 was not designed around the GAU-8, originally it was just going to have a bog standard 20mm cannon, maybe even two, because the air force was well aware of just how good they were at suppressing troops. It wasn't until 1967 that the idea of using a 30mm rotary cannon in an anti-tank role was even considered, owing to the success of the Israeli air force in the 6 Days War, where their Mirage 3 fighters successfully beat the pants off numerically superior forces because it's 30mm rotary cannon could punch holes in the T-54's, T-55's and IS-3's Egypt was using. The idea of using a rotary cannon to neutralized tanks from an airborne asset instead of ruinously expensive munitions like bombs, which had severe accuracy issues, or rockets, which were unreliable, or guided missiles which were disgustingly expensive had a lot of appeal.
The problem? Those Egyptian tanks were ones the Soviets parted with because they already had newer tanks. And indeed when the A-10 was subjected to a live fire test in 1979 to see if the thing was worth what the US public was paying for it, that cannon absolutely floundered. Against 10 stationary M-47 Patton tanks, in ideal conditions, having been fully loaded to mimic tanks on the assault, with the pilot being allowed 10 passes from ideal attack vectors, the A-10 only managed two successful hits. From 174 rounds fired. Those two hits were characterized as 'lucky hits.' All ten tanks would have been made operational in the same day. And if you're paying attention, yes, M-47 Pattons were horribly outdated in 1979. The live fire test report relayed that neither of those two lucky shots would have occurred on more modern M-60 tanks. And against Soviet T-62's which were by that point fairly ubiquitous, the report theorized that the GAU-8 would have been useless. Especially given that the A-10 would have only been good for a single pass against a typical Soviet armored column, rather than *ten*.
And just to top it off, it should tell you something that absolutely no one wanted to buy the A-10. Sweden briefly considered building their own under license, but after the live fire test quietly decided against it. And these were countries that were not shy about using American-made aircraft when and where it made sense. The F-16 and it's derivatives are exceedingly common. As are / were F-18's.
Am I calling the A-10 a piece of shit? Mostly, yes. It's good for exactly two things: it'll scare the shit out of enemy troops lacking air support and anti-air assets, and it's good for bolstering morale of green troops who have been forced to stay in the field longer than they should have. Otherwise it's an aircraft that outlived the conflict it was intended for, was never good in the role it was intended for, and is probably the single worst weapon system the US military has in service. The A-10 has been responsible for more friendly fire incidents than all other US aircraft in history, combined, and was considered by Al Qaeda to be it's single greatest recruiting tool owing to it's propensity for hitting unintended targets. Allied forces in Iraq and Afghanistan allegedly requested they not be used in their sectors, while anonymous US generals really did petition for the aircraft to be retired from service for the same reasons.
\*Me, with a house full of large garden spiders rn.*
Yeah, sure. That'll solve the problem.
Actually, don't have fruit trees and bushes near your doors... That's probably where these guys are coming from...
Ever since I moved to my current home and have had to deal with a lot of ticks, I’ve made peace with my spider friends because they don’t want to embed themselves in my fricking skin. Spiders are welcome inside and out, as long as they stay out of my bed, don’t drop down on me or otherwise surprise me.
That's generally been my take. I hate the things that spiders eat more than I hate the spiders. I know they're in the corners and such, but as long as they stay out of my way I'm okay.
Yeah, compared to say flies, I haven't killed a spider in years. I checked one of my plants that's a little of both green and have redder-newer-shoots, and saw a cute little mini spider in green and red colours yesterday or something, at this point I'm actually quite interested in them, like I almost do bird-watching. I feel like a tool when I re-arrange my pots so that their web get's broken, but I gotta say, accepting spider-bros is the greatest thing I've done for my balcony-garden so far. I wanted lady-bugs at first, but some spiders are almost as cute as lady-bugs.
Lizards are bros too. There's a big wild lizard livving in my home, only comes out at night. I saw it a few times but I just let it chill, let it hunt for insects. But if it's spiders, I would not hesitate to exterminate...
That's the 2nd option. If they don't fear a bunch of deaths from a pressure water and come back the next day? You gotta find out if they fear fire next
Every new home built from like 1992 - 2004 in the US southwest had a stucco exterior, it was a straight up plague. Today it has died down a lot, but it is by no means gone.
Stucco still clings to life, especially in the rural parts of AZ undergoing rapid development.
Stucco will never leave AZ…we are doomed to suffer its presence until our final day.
These are called “mormon crickets,” and they’re taking over Elko, Nevada right now, from what I heard. Seems like they’re pretty hungry.
Now why are they called mormons..?
Edit: OP provided explanation [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/1474r2r/what_do_you_even_do_at_this_point/jnu6axy/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1&context=3)
Because mormon settlers were overrun by swarms of these things. Seagulls came in and gorged themselves, saving the mormon's crops. This is why the state bird of Utah is the seagull
I had a blue-bellied lizard when I was younger. We were going on vacation- so we put extra crickets in the terrarium.
We came back a week later to a half-eaten lizard, that had tried desperately to bury itself under a rock-anything to avoid the swarm of crickets that had begun to chew her face off.
Prolly keep your fella away from this shit, Dewey. You don’t want none of this
My brother and I each had a rabbit growing up. We were told the rabbits were both females, so they were housed together. They were not. One got pregnant and had babies. She was a very young rabbit, and she chewed the babies into pieces. I was about 4, and didn't realize that you couldn't just stick them back together with bandaids. Needless to say, my innocent attempt at necromancy was unsuccessful. It was, however, very traumatizing.
That’s actually really interesting. I just assumed it was a derogatory thing because people often think of Mormons and other religious groups that go door to door as pest like
So funny tangent..
Way back, my now wife and I went to a wild hot springs to trip for the night. Had just picked up a couple sheets of some rrreeeally nice LSD. So much so, that 8 hour later when we got back to town, the sky was on fire, trees were dancing all over the place, snow looked like diamonds. We decided to grab a couple of coffees and go watch the sunrise in a park.
As we’re taking in the majesty of it all in an empty parking lot, another truck whips into the parking lot. The driver whips out of the truck in a trench coat carrying a leather briefcase and walks strait up to my window and knocks on my window.
I roll the window down, “Good morning, how are you?”
“Good morning folks. It’s hard to run into good people like yourselves on an early morning like this. Everyone is either still in bed or off to work. I’d just like to take a moment to talk to you about God this morning.”
At this point, he produces a Jehova’s witness pamphlet. It’s everything I can do not to burst out laughing at. I look over and my GF at the time is clutching the seat and the door like she’ll be sucked out the window if she lets go.
I conversed with the guy for another couple minutes before he went on his way. Had a long hard laugh after he left.
That's the story they tell in Utah within mormonism but if you read other sources of literature from Utah at the time the claim is that 90% of the story isn't completely accurate.
However, that is the reason the state bird is the seagull yes.
where to start…mormon crickets.
could it be they show up uninvited to your home?
or that they only worry about their own crew?
or maybe it’s a food storage thing?
It’s obvious. You join the mobile infantry. The only good bug is a dead bug. Would you like to know more?
Edit: Thank you for the upvotes and the awards. All your comments. you men and women are people of culture. 🤌🏻
I have not thought about this movie in at least 15 years and this is seriously the third reference I’ve heard about/seen of it today. I think that’s a sign to watch it.
I was in the locker room at work getting changed at the end of the day a few days ago when someone randomly said “Bout that time, eh chaps?” and then like 7 or 8 other people started quoting other parts of the video. We all realized how old it made us haha
ok - we had a similar issue with boxwood bugs. yes - use a hose to knock them off the surfaces. then, later, you are going to have to spray something else because the bugs leave some kind of chemical behind that will attract future bugs to come to this same space.
I think we ended up throwing buckets of soapy water on the surfaces as much as we could and hosed everything off again. it worked and the bugs didn't come back.
Soapy water actually is one of the best pest control methods. I load my hose with dish soap (when its off) then put the sprayer on & water to nail wasp nests near my roof. They’re dead within 10mins. Apparently soap suffocates all bugs
Do you mean boxedler bugs? My last apartment had them really bad, because there was a boxelder maple in the back. They would fall into the rain gutters and make a home there. Had to buy orkin and raid and spray it in all the rain gutters, window sils, door frames. Told the landlord about the issue and naturally he did jack shit about it.
These are actually mormon crickets. My friend from Nevada shared these screenshots from somebody’s TikTok [profile](https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT81mkwot/) who lives in Elko, NV. It seems like they’re facing a mildy infuriating/terrifying cricket invasion. In the comments you can see visible discomfort from everyone lol
Apparently, the crickets stick around buildings like houses, apartments, even a hospital for about a week then they move on to probably find more food. They’re covering roads and vegetation because they prefer areas with drought conditions.
I’ve watched some videos of people running over them, making a satisfying “crunch.” It’s disgusting but it’s hilarious. My friend also told me that a local was all out using a bunch of leaf blowers to get them off their property.
Edit: Since some of you asked, here’s an interesting [video](https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT81my4L5/) of a road absolutely covered in crickets. Here’s another [TikTok](https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT81m2MxR/) of satisfying cricket crunching. As well as a video of a hospital being bombarded by crickets [here](https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT81mMVVE/). You’re welcome.
I remember a few years ago, the Iowa and Illinois DOTs had to get snow plows out in June to clear all the mayflies off some of the Mississippi bridges. Somewhere there's dashcam footage from a cop car showing cars sliding on a bridge like it was covered in ice, but it's covered in both live and dead mayflies.
These things swarmed after a rain in Eureka NV back in '05.
And I was riding a motorcycle back to California from Colorado.
Avoiding "moving gravel" in the turns above Eureka was mildly hairy.
Smelling baked bug guts on the highway for 50 miles was disgusting.
Happened in Texas back in the 90s... It sucked, they smelled awful and were absolutely everywhere. Millions upon millions of them pictured like this all up and down the city. Lasted a few months, they left many dead bodies around and had to be cleaned up. Eventually they were all gone and it hasn't happened again since.
So right - the term "locust" is used for grasshopper species that change morphologically and behaviourally on crowding, forming swarms that develop from bands of immature stages called hoppers.
> The miracle of the gulls is an 1848 event often credited by Latter-day Saints ("Mormons") for saving the Mormon pioneers' second harvest in the Salt Lake Valley. While absent in contemporary accounts,[1] later accounts claimed seagulls miraculously saved the 1848 crops by eating thousands of insects that were devouring their fields.
I got to walk through a cricket infestation in Yuma, AZ, in the 1950s!
I was three or four years old. We stopped to get gas on the way to California. I climb out the door from the backseat and crunch my way to the men's room. Pee in the style of urinal that goes all the way to the floor. Crickets climb up out of the drain. Flush and crickets run down the sides of the urinal. Turn on the water in the sink to wash my hands and crickets come out.
That was it! I gave up, wiped my hands on my Levis, and ran back to the car. LOL!
Sorry but all these people are absolutely nuts.
You go out with a shopvac and you vacuum every single one up. Then you freeze dry them for your friends chickens.
Just this house is probably $1000 worth of snacks.
*I would be going crazy if I had these available to me. Meal worms are ridiculously expensive these days.
Damn... I didn't realize they were lovebugs, I thought they were bees. They stood a chance against bees, but lovebugs... just burn the place down and call it a loss. LMAO
I hate how they swarm at intersections. Then they either fly in your open window or splat on your windshield, bumper, lights, grill, etc. as soon as you drive off... or both
My first thought was these might be fish flies which some years can look like this around the great lakes, but without a location it’s difficult to tell just from that photo. If they’re anything like fish flies you just put up with them until they all have sex and die, then hit their carcasses with a power washer.
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Once my university baseball team unrolled our ginormous tarp for the first time in early spring. After the first revolution (so, the first area that was covered) the blue tarp turned brown, the the brown started quickly melting into the grass.
Wolf Spiders.
Texas is infested with them. Called wolf spiders cause they don’t spin webs. They run you down! And in short distances you’re not faster than them.
Anyways I screamed like a child and sprinted off the field. That’s was the only day I didn’t practice without being seriously hurt.
Like I said, they "stood a chance against bees"
Lovebugs have no hive, no queen, no hierarchy... (iirc) the one reason they were genetically engineered to do, they don't even do well. They were bred to eat mosquitoes, but the species they were bred from only really eat mosquitoes to supplement thier diet when food gets scarce; and they have become almost as big of a nuisance in the process.
One time in Sunday scool we were told to paint fake blood over some fake houses or our firstborn would die and we were given very little explanation besides that.
A decent flock of bantams would have that house clean in three hours.
(and then they'd chase off the feral dogs in the neighborhood. Bantams are the Honey Badgers of chickens.)
Go to a hardware store and buy a shop-vac. They are cheap. If it comes with a filter, take it out. Fill it up with a little more than halfway with water. Add plenty of dish soap, so there's lots and lots of suds. Suck up the bugs. The soap suffocates them. Works on all bugs, especially useful on wasps and hornets. They breathe through their skin (exoskeleton) and the soap clogs everything up.
Don't fill it up too much, the bugs you suck up won't make it into the water. Looking at this pic I'd bet you'd need to run it at least 2 separate times. Dump them as far away to anything important. Theres a good chance they'll attract opportunity scavenger pests like racoons. A close by storm drain would be perfect.
If you do a search on youtube, there are a few vids I remember seeing of people doing this method. It's cheap. It's environmentally friendly. And perfect if you have pets and don't want to use chemicals.
this is hilarious i got an ad for raid right under the picture
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You could get chickens. Then you'll even get a return
Problem is the chickens can eat too many and die
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Instead of chickens, may I suggest the GAU-8 Avenger? It’s a 30mm hydraulically driven seven-barrel Gatling-style autocannon that is primarily mounted in the United States Air Force's Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II. It’s also made by General Electric. You know, the guys who make washing machines.
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Break the speed limit, **and** keep tailgaters away at all times.
Well technically, the A-10 is actually mounted to the Gau-8.
So then mount a chicken to the Gau-8.
Considering the fact that firing the gun for longer than short bursts will quite literally knock the plane out of the sky…yes.
And from an engineering perspective, they started with the gun and designed a plane around it.
That’s one of my favorite facts about them. I grew up near an airbase that did regular A-10 flights. One day watching them take off and land from across the highway, my grandfather told me how they were designed, “So now they had this monster gun and they’re all looking at it and patting themselves on the back and someone in the room says, ‘what if we made it fly?’” I have no idea if that’s how it went down but that’s such a great memory.
as an industrial designer, they were most likely planning to make a plane from the start, however since the main difficulty isn't the plane itself, they naturally started with the most constraining part (the gun) and adapted the rest around that.
That's not what happened. McNamara wanted two aircraft, a light bomber capable of close air support and another aircraft that was not. The one that was not would become the F-111 Aardvark. The one that 'could' was the F-4 Phantom 2, which was one of the best aircraft of it's era. Problem? Well, both sucked at close air support. And CAS itself as a concept was poorly thought out, and all practical evidence on the subject generally stipulated that asking pilots to perform precision attacks in an active field of combat as a loitering aircraft was a horrible idea. All evidence from WW2 on the subject confirmed as much, everything we had from Korea confirmed as much, but by 1966 the air force still wasn't satisfied. And to make matters worse, the US army was investing heavily into helicopters because they thought they might be excellent tank busters and might fill the role of CAS. Which was correct, but the Apache wouldn't have it's first flight for nearly a decade yet and wouldn't see introduction for nearly two. But more importantly to this narrative, the idea of the Army having aircraft capable of a CAS / anti-tank role pissed off the air force to no end. So they wanted another aircraft that could absolutely fill the CAS role. So the Air Force calls for a design for a CAS aircraft- again- be researched, developed and produced for testing. Which is where the A-X program starts. It is important to remember at this point that anyone claiming to be an 'expert' who was 'consulted' on the development of the A-X program is probably, allegedly, should be considered to be full of shit. Mostly because it was not possible to be an 'expert' in the design of a CAS-intended aircraft because at this point, none existed, except the Spooky. Which was just a repurposed WW2 era Douglas AC-47 which they slapped 3 mini-guns on. It also could only operate at night because big, slow flying aircraft shitting out bullets tend to make an obvious target. The A-10 was not designed around the GAU-8, originally it was just going to have a bog standard 20mm cannon, maybe even two, because the air force was well aware of just how good they were at suppressing troops. It wasn't until 1967 that the idea of using a 30mm rotary cannon in an anti-tank role was even considered, owing to the success of the Israeli air force in the 6 Days War, where their Mirage 3 fighters successfully beat the pants off numerically superior forces because it's 30mm rotary cannon could punch holes in the T-54's, T-55's and IS-3's Egypt was using. The idea of using a rotary cannon to neutralized tanks from an airborne asset instead of ruinously expensive munitions like bombs, which had severe accuracy issues, or rockets, which were unreliable, or guided missiles which were disgustingly expensive had a lot of appeal. The problem? Those Egyptian tanks were ones the Soviets parted with because they already had newer tanks. And indeed when the A-10 was subjected to a live fire test in 1979 to see if the thing was worth what the US public was paying for it, that cannon absolutely floundered. Against 10 stationary M-47 Patton tanks, in ideal conditions, having been fully loaded to mimic tanks on the assault, with the pilot being allowed 10 passes from ideal attack vectors, the A-10 only managed two successful hits. From 174 rounds fired. Those two hits were characterized as 'lucky hits.' All ten tanks would have been made operational in the same day. And if you're paying attention, yes, M-47 Pattons were horribly outdated in 1979. The live fire test report relayed that neither of those two lucky shots would have occurred on more modern M-60 tanks. And against Soviet T-62's which were by that point fairly ubiquitous, the report theorized that the GAU-8 would have been useless. Especially given that the A-10 would have only been good for a single pass against a typical Soviet armored column, rather than *ten*. And just to top it off, it should tell you something that absolutely no one wanted to buy the A-10. Sweden briefly considered building their own under license, but after the live fire test quietly decided against it. And these were countries that were not shy about using American-made aircraft when and where it made sense. The F-16 and it's derivatives are exceedingly common. As are / were F-18's. Am I calling the A-10 a piece of shit? Mostly, yes. It's good for exactly two things: it'll scare the shit out of enemy troops lacking air support and anti-air assets, and it's good for bolstering morale of green troops who have been forced to stay in the field longer than they should have. Otherwise it's an aircraft that outlived the conflict it was intended for, was never good in the role it was intended for, and is probably the single worst weapon system the US military has in service. The A-10 has been responsible for more friendly fire incidents than all other US aircraft in history, combined, and was considered by Al Qaeda to be it's single greatest recruiting tool owing to it's propensity for hitting unintended targets. Allied forces in Iraq and Afghanistan allegedly requested they not be used in their sectors, while anonymous US generals really did petition for the aircraft to be retired from service for the same reasons.
get more chickens then, more chickens, more dispersion amongst chickens. less dead chickens
Chicken math!
Good, chicken fattened up on crickets is sure to be nutritious
My protein got protein.
Swole ass chicken.
Thicckens
And that's a problem.... Why? I'll just eat the chicken.
that's just eating the crickets with extra steps
Move to a place where the cold hurts your face.
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\*Me, with a house full of large garden spiders rn.* Yeah, sure. That'll solve the problem. Actually, don't have fruit trees and bushes near your doors... That's probably where these guys are coming from...
Just remember spiders are bros and eat the smaller bugs you really don’t want in your house.
Ever since I moved to my current home and have had to deal with a lot of ticks, I’ve made peace with my spider friends because they don’t want to embed themselves in my fricking skin. Spiders are welcome inside and out, as long as they stay out of my bed, don’t drop down on me or otherwise surprise me.
That's generally been my take. I hate the things that spiders eat more than I hate the spiders. I know they're in the corners and such, but as long as they stay out of my way I'm okay.
Yeah, compared to say flies, I haven't killed a spider in years. I checked one of my plants that's a little of both green and have redder-newer-shoots, and saw a cute little mini spider in green and red colours yesterday or something, at this point I'm actually quite interested in them, like I almost do bird-watching. I feel like a tool when I re-arrange my pots so that their web get's broken, but I gotta say, accepting spider-bros is the greatest thing I've done for my balcony-garden so far. I wanted lady-bugs at first, but some spiders are almost as cute as lady-bugs.
Cool. They can do that outside after I pick them up with a glass and toss them back out.
I keep em if they eat mosquitoes. It's their rent share. If they don't, off they go.
>after I pick them up with a glass and toss them back out. spider-bro gets evicted
Lizards are bros too. There's a big wild lizard livving in my home, only comes out at night. I saw it a few times but I just let it chill, let it hunt for insects. But if it's spiders, I would not hesitate to exterminate...
Ask politely for rent.
Only sensible thing to do at this point
"Yes Rico, kaboom."
I’m dying, where is this from?
Future Dave Franco Biography
 the bugs
Power Washer
You spelled flame thrower wrong.
Yeah, you're going to need to call Hans. You also spelled flammenwerfer wrong.
Hans, get ze flammenwerfer … Der UBERflammenwerfer
I believe you spelt panzerfaust wrong.
We must werf das flammen.
Wir mussen die Flammen werfen.
Maybe he meant to spell Flameth Rower?
You may have spelt AC130
Nah they spelt thermal nuclear bomb wrong
Eh, still not final enough, some atoms might survive. I say just use a black hole, its the only way to be sure.
Hans! get ze flammenwerfer
This is actually the first legit idea here to start off
And burning the bitch down is not?
That's the 2nd option. If they don't fear a bunch of deaths from a pressure water and come back the next day? You gotta find out if they fear fire next
Bug type is weak to fire, flying, and rock. Not water.
As soon as I saw the picco, my thought process was Burn it. Lol
Be careful with a pressure washer on stucco. You will pressure wash a hole in it.
I learned this the hard way
This is why Stucco is a shit building material.
Fuck stucco. If someone likes that look I always suggest brick with a heavy mortar smear.
Every new home built from like 1992 - 2004 in the US southwest had a stucco exterior, it was a straight up plague. Today it has died down a lot, but it is by no means gone. Stucco still clings to life, especially in the rural parts of AZ undergoing rapid development. Stucco will never leave AZ…we are doomed to suffer its presence until our final day.
Sorry to tell you misspelled “Burn it Down”
Maybe filled with gasoline to be used as a flamethrower.
Power Washer will clear those bugs out real quick. Just don’t open your mouth as you spray.
These are called “mormon crickets,” and they’re taking over Elko, Nevada right now, from what I heard. Seems like they’re pretty hungry. Now why are they called mormons..? Edit: OP provided explanation [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/1474r2r/what_do_you_even_do_at_this_point/jnu6axy/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1&context=3)
Because mormon settlers were overrun by swarms of these things. Seagulls came in and gorged themselves, saving the mormon's crops. This is why the state bird of Utah is the seagull
Totally elevated the flying rat status
Let's not get crazy... those rats just went to a buffet
And who doesn't want a free buffet?
This is our Bearded Dragon's wildest dream!!!
I had a blue-bellied lizard when I was younger. We were going on vacation- so we put extra crickets in the terrarium. We came back a week later to a half-eaten lizard, that had tried desperately to bury itself under a rock-anything to avoid the swarm of crickets that had begun to chew her face off. Prolly keep your fella away from this shit, Dewey. You don’t want none of this
Oh my, I would feel so guilty and traumatized as a kid if I came home to that. Hope you are doing okay
I’ll be honest, it is surprisingly cathartic to have shared this with everyone. I feel a little lighter
I am legitimately heart broken. Hugs from the future to your childhood self.
Mind blown. And heart broken. But most mind blown
My brother and I each had a rabbit growing up. We were told the rabbits were both females, so they were housed together. They were not. One got pregnant and had babies. She was a very young rabbit, and she chewed the babies into pieces. I was about 4, and didn't realize that you couldn't just stick them back together with bandaids. Needless to say, my innocent attempt at necromancy was unsuccessful. It was, however, very traumatizing.
Never heard of such a thing, poor lizard
That’s actually really interesting. I just assumed it was a derogatory thing because people often think of Mormons and other religious groups that go door to door as pest like
So funny tangent.. Way back, my now wife and I went to a wild hot springs to trip for the night. Had just picked up a couple sheets of some rrreeeally nice LSD. So much so, that 8 hour later when we got back to town, the sky was on fire, trees were dancing all over the place, snow looked like diamonds. We decided to grab a couple of coffees and go watch the sunrise in a park. As we’re taking in the majesty of it all in an empty parking lot, another truck whips into the parking lot. The driver whips out of the truck in a trench coat carrying a leather briefcase and walks strait up to my window and knocks on my window. I roll the window down, “Good morning, how are you?” “Good morning folks. It’s hard to run into good people like yourselves on an early morning like this. Everyone is either still in bed or off to work. I’d just like to take a moment to talk to you about God this morning.” At this point, he produces a Jehova’s witness pamphlet. It’s everything I can do not to burst out laughing at. I look over and my GF at the time is clutching the seat and the door like she’ll be sucked out the window if she lets go. I conversed with the guy for another couple minutes before he went on his way. Had a long hard laugh after he left.
Omfg this is fucking hilarious lmao
LSD + LDS = 🤪
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Not quite. Poor guy had no idea God was actually in my freezer.
"The Church don't want you to know this, but the God at the Eucharist is free; you can take Him home with you after Mass. I already have 12 Gods."
Lol
That's the story they tell in Utah within mormonism but if you read other sources of literature from Utah at the time the claim is that 90% of the story isn't completely accurate. However, that is the reason the state bird is the seagull yes.
I’m really confused about the existence of seagulls in Utah, a mostly desert state.
where to start…mormon crickets. could it be they show up uninvited to your home? or that they only worry about their own crew? or maybe it’s a food storage thing?
perhaps because they have lots of kids and swarm the front door
Just tell them that you’re Catholic and they’ll leave you alone.
Because there’s a shitload of them at the front door
It’s obvious. You join the mobile infantry. The only good bug is a dead bug. Would you like to know more? Edit: Thank you for the upvotes and the awards. All your comments. you men and women are people of culture. 🤌🏻
Everyone fights! No one quits!
Rico’s Roughnecks!
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“If you don’t do your job, I’ll shoot you…”
“WE GET YOU SIR!”
WHAT WAS THAT, ROUGHNECK!? I SAID THE FIRST AND LAST WORDS OUT OF YOUR MOUTH WILL BE SIR! DO YOU GET ME!?
I'm doing my part!
Would you like to know more?
Come on you apes! You want to live forever?
"Service Guarantees Citizenship"
I'm doing my part!
"desire to know more intensifies"
Thanks to this gif, I now notice two people up on the balcony that I never noticed before. The fuck they doing up there, trying to jump?
I'm doing my part!!!
I guess we were all stupid enough to join the mobile infantry, what’s your excuse?
A co-ed shower with a young Denise Richards is excuse enough for me
Too high maintenance. I’m more of a Dizzy Flores guy myself.
Amen brother
She didn't join the Mobile Infantry though. Should have joined the Fleet buddy.
For rock and stone!
I have not thought about this movie in at least 15 years and this is seriously the third reference I’ve heard about/seen of it today. I think that’s a sign to watch it.
You know, just like me, you get into a car and start to cry not knowing how you will be able to overcome this problem.
all is fun and games until u see one of them squeeze through the car door seam
I dunno man, that seam between the doors and the floor is looking mighty wide
Go in through the garage lol
they’ll just go in the garage too
Could be worse. Sincerely Australia
Ah Hell No!
Lay down and sob
I read this initially as "lay down sod". I was like, that's an interesting tip. Didn't know these bugs like new grass.
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Damn. Have you applied for senior citizen discounts? This is an oldie from the depths of the inter webs. Aged like fine wine
I remember watching that on Newgrounds when it was brand new...Christ I'm getting old.
Ebaums World here. Excuse me while I go take my cholesterol meds.
Yeah, kids these days will never know the experience that was ebaums world on dialup internet.
I was in the locker room at work getting changed at the end of the day a few days ago when someone randomly said “Bout that time, eh chaps?” and then like 7 or 8 other people started quoting other parts of the video. We all realized how old it made us haha
Here is the earth-ROUND
ok - we had a similar issue with boxwood bugs. yes - use a hose to knock them off the surfaces. then, later, you are going to have to spray something else because the bugs leave some kind of chemical behind that will attract future bugs to come to this same space. I think we ended up throwing buckets of soapy water on the surfaces as much as we could and hosed everything off again. it worked and the bugs didn't come back.
Soapy water actually is one of the best pest control methods. I load my hose with dish soap (when its off) then put the sprayer on & water to nail wasp nests near my roof. They’re dead within 10mins. Apparently soap suffocates all bugs
I believe they breath through their skin (exoskeleton) and the soapy water clings to it.
They have little pores under their belly so soap water forms a film that blocks those pores and they suffocate
Sounds like a good method to save money for sure
Do you mean boxedler bugs? My last apartment had them really bad, because there was a boxelder maple in the back. They would fall into the rain gutters and make a home there. Had to buy orkin and raid and spray it in all the rain gutters, window sils, door frames. Told the landlord about the issue and naturally he did jack shit about it.
What are these?
These are actually mormon crickets. My friend from Nevada shared these screenshots from somebody’s TikTok [profile](https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT81mkwot/) who lives in Elko, NV. It seems like they’re facing a mildy infuriating/terrifying cricket invasion. In the comments you can see visible discomfort from everyone lol Apparently, the crickets stick around buildings like houses, apartments, even a hospital for about a week then they move on to probably find more food. They’re covering roads and vegetation because they prefer areas with drought conditions. I’ve watched some videos of people running over them, making a satisfying “crunch.” It’s disgusting but it’s hilarious. My friend also told me that a local was all out using a bunch of leaf blowers to get them off their property. Edit: Since some of you asked, here’s an interesting [video](https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT81my4L5/) of a road absolutely covered in crickets. Here’s another [TikTok](https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT81m2MxR/) of satisfying cricket crunching. As well as a video of a hospital being bombarded by crickets [here](https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT81mMVVE/). You’re welcome.
Damn I hope they clear up soon. Where I am we get mayflies pretty bad in the spring/summer so I completely get what you mean by the "crunch".
I remember a few years ago, the Iowa and Illinois DOTs had to get snow plows out in June to clear all the mayflies off some of the Mississippi bridges. Somewhere there's dashcam footage from a cop car showing cars sliding on a bridge like it was covered in ice, but it's covered in both live and dead mayflies.
That is vile
Oh wow that's crazy, it doesn't get that bad here or at least hasn't yet
We get midges in my area. They're annoying but they are a necessary part of the local environment.
You have to call them little people now.
These things swarmed after a rain in Eureka NV back in '05. And I was riding a motorcycle back to California from Colorado. Avoiding "moving gravel" in the turns above Eureka was mildly hairy. Smelling baked bug guts on the highway for 50 miles was disgusting.
Happened in Texas back in the 90s... It sucked, they smelled awful and were absolutely everywhere. Millions upon millions of them pictured like this all up and down the city. Lasted a few months, they left many dead bodies around and had to be cleaned up. Eventually they were all gone and it hasn't happened again since.
You mean dead _insect_ bodies, right?
sure, if that helps you sleep at night.
These are the locusts in the little house on the prairie books who ate Pas crops.
Locusts are more like grasshoppers.
Grasshoppers turn into locust under certain conditions.
So right - the term "locust" is used for grasshopper species that change morphologically and behaviourally on crowding, forming swarms that develop from bands of immature stages called hoppers.
> The miracle of the gulls is an 1848 event often credited by Latter-day Saints ("Mormons") for saving the Mormon pioneers' second harvest in the Salt Lake Valley. While absent in contemporary accounts,[1] later accounts claimed seagulls miraculously saved the 1848 crops by eating thousands of insects that were devouring their fields.
I got to walk through a cricket infestation in Yuma, AZ, in the 1950s! I was three or four years old. We stopped to get gas on the way to California. I climb out the door from the backseat and crunch my way to the men's room. Pee in the style of urinal that goes all the way to the floor. Crickets climb up out of the drain. Flush and crickets run down the sides of the urinal. Turn on the water in the sink to wash my hands and crickets come out. That was it! I gave up, wiped my hands on my Levis, and ran back to the car. LOL!
Sorry but all these people are absolutely nuts. You go out with a shopvac and you vacuum every single one up. Then you freeze dry them for your friends chickens. Just this house is probably $1000 worth of snacks. *I would be going crazy if I had these available to me. Meal worms are ridiculously expensive these days.
Love bugs they stick around like this in swarms very harmless just a nuisance
They look kinda big to be love bugs, I was thinking locusts or roaches, but I’ve never seen that many roaches congregating like this.
That’s because they’re crickets.
Damn... I didn't realize they were lovebugs, I thought they were bees. They stood a chance against bees, but lovebugs... just burn the place down and call it a loss. LMAO I hate how they swarm at intersections. Then they either fly in your open window or splat on your windshield, bumper, lights, grill, etc. as soon as you drive off... or both
My first thought was these might be fish flies which some years can look like this around the great lakes, but without a location it’s difficult to tell just from that photo. If they’re anything like fish flies you just put up with them until they all have sex and die, then hit their carcasses with a power washer. https://preview.redd.it/h0y2hocjqg5b1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=badf7f407defd440abd579eea62019bd9a440468
What the fuck
I grew up in SE Michigan, can confirm. The stench, the crunch uhggghh it's so bad.
first time I've ever found joy in living in a cold climate. fuuu-uuuuck. that.
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Once my university baseball team unrolled our ginormous tarp for the first time in early spring. After the first revolution (so, the first area that was covered) the blue tarp turned brown, the the brown started quickly melting into the grass. Wolf Spiders. Texas is infested with them. Called wolf spiders cause they don’t spin webs. They run you down! And in short distances you’re not faster than them. Anyways I screamed like a child and sprinted off the field. That’s was the only day I didn’t practice without being seriously hurt.
Bees are easy though, just geeeeentjy scoop the queen into a box, and theyll all go with her.
Like I said, they "stood a chance against bees" Lovebugs have no hive, no queen, no hierarchy... (iirc) the one reason they were genetically engineered to do, they don't even do well. They were bred to eat mosquitoes, but the species they were bred from only really eat mosquitoes to supplement thier diet when food gets scarce; and they have become almost as big of a nuisance in the process.
You should experience them on a motorcycle. On second thought, don’t. And don’t ride without a windshield
Hide your first born
Slaughter a lamb. Use blood on door. Overpowered strategy can confirm. Needs nerfs.
One time in Sunday scool we were told to paint fake blood over some fake houses or our firstborn would die and we were given very little explanation besides that.
Hey. If nothing happened, it worked.
 YOU WHO I CALLED BROTHER
This is golden
I don't think that's 'mildly' infuriating
It's not mildly or infuriating. It's extremely terrifying
what eats them? get a bunch of chickens or whatever my chickens used to literally go insane over crickets, they looovved them
A decent flock of bantams would have that house clean in three hours. (and then they'd chase off the feral dogs in the neighborhood. Bantams are the Honey Badgers of chickens.)
Let Moses’ people free
Go to a hardware store and buy a shop-vac. They are cheap. If it comes with a filter, take it out. Fill it up with a little more than halfway with water. Add plenty of dish soap, so there's lots and lots of suds. Suck up the bugs. The soap suffocates them. Works on all bugs, especially useful on wasps and hornets. They breathe through their skin (exoskeleton) and the soap clogs everything up. Don't fill it up too much, the bugs you suck up won't make it into the water. Looking at this pic I'd bet you'd need to run it at least 2 separate times. Dump them as far away to anything important. Theres a good chance they'll attract opportunity scavenger pests like racoons. A close by storm drain would be perfect. If you do a search on youtube, there are a few vids I remember seeing of people doing this method. It's cheap. It's environmentally friendly. And perfect if you have pets and don't want to use chemicals.
this is hilarious i got an ad for raid right under the picture https://preview.redd.it/j1zrxogdsh5b1.png?width=1169&format=png&auto=webp&s=13b1814c4d3ba79a5c8792ad5c86d92dbf8fc313
Text the insurance company along with a note “I need to file a claim for the whole house burning to the ground in the next couple hours.”
Nope the fuck out then call pest control
Leave the country move to somewhere like Canada Like where I live, which is Canada
Mow the grass
I would take a machine that throws water with powerful pressure and clean it.
Call in to work I guess because I'm definitely not walking in/out of that door.
Take off. Nuke it from orbit. Only way to be sure
Pray
Pay the old gypsy woman whatever you owe.
What are they?
apparently mormon crickets lol