Invasion of Tent Caterpillars

[dkounios]

i got this in an email a few days ago I thought I'd share with you all.

this is in Fort McMurray (outside of my city, Regina) on an acreage. They were everywhere in the city but this is too much...kinda grossed out but at the same time, interested.
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[archipelago]

holy fuck dude...

[Sawa]

:x damn.... there must be something really really tasty inside the house...

[JAG.]

nothing a can of hairspray and a lighter cant fix :wink: still thats pretty nasty. - JAG

[DeadlyFreeze]

You can't beat them, you have to become their leader.

So grab some peanut butter get naked and apply generously, then you want to roll (counter clockwise mind you) in them until your evenly coated.

[wild thing]

OHGODOHGODOHGOD

I hate those things. I hate swarming things. That looks like a scene out of a B-Horror movie. These are going to crawl around my nightmares for weeks. ):

That being said I would very much like to roll a bowling ball along the side of the house and crush them by the thousands. Sure you'd get caterpillar innards all over your bowling ball, but tell me it wouldn't be worth it.

Did the e-mail say how it ended?

[FourTonMantis]

nothing a can of hairspray and a lighter cant fix :wink: still thats pretty nasty. - JAG

seriously dude. light those things up.

[dkounios]

nothing a can of hairspray and a lighter cant fix :wink: still thats pretty nasty. - JAG


heh...if that was my farm/acreage I'm sure I'd be using your method. :xpld:

unfortunately, the email didn't say what/how (it) happened or why.
although, it does say they are called "tent caterpillars".

i did a wiki search on them and found out a few things that were interesting:

In terms of complexity of interactions, the Tent Caterpillar stands near the pinnacle of caterpillar sociality. The adult moth lays her eggs in a single batch in late spring or early summer. The egg masses contain on average 200-300 eggs.
perhaps there were a shit load of female moths around and decided to lay their eggs at the same time in that exact area? thats a whole lot of hatching if thats the case..

heres the link if you want to read more about the little buggers..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_tent_caterpillar


im really hoping that this person didn't have a crack leading to her basement.:nohope:

[Xazy]

Reminds me of
http://user.it.uu.se/~svens/larverna/normal.html

that first tree looks innocuous until you scroll down...

[Cwn Annwn]

holy crap xazy!
D:

That's awful...

[Haymaker]

Too bad they arent really tasty, you could load a restaurant with em!

Anyway, I heard they are also a real plague in Belgium (and in some areas here in The Netherlands too). And yes, I saw how they used flamethrowers to burn them to death. BUT, before the burning, it's wise to keep your nose shut. they say that he smell that the burnt corpses spread could K.O. even the most disgusting bum. Dunno if thats really true, someone here even smelled one of those massacres?

[dkounios]

ugh....this is all to disturbing..

lol Xazy, where on earth did you find that!?
I mean, thats guys bike must have been there forever to get covered in that crap!

and Jens, that first tree pic is sick too...are those pics of the bites that people have received from them buggers?

[Micaiah Nelson]

:nohope: don't listen to them unless you want your house to burn down.
Fuck the house you have to run dammit. RRRUUUUUUUN! "Get down. Run! Go! Get to the chopper." "If it bleeds, we can kill it." "Your clothes. Give them to me. Now.":uzi:

Arnold Schwarzenegger Quotes.

[JAG.]

man thats nuts. ive never heard of such things. its fascinating but fucking gross at the same time.. - JAG

[Jason Rainville]

O man, we had those here when I was a kid, I hates them! I couldn't walk down the sidewalk of my house without squishing one...

[Xazy]

lol Xazy, where on earth did you find that!?
I mean, thats guys bike must have been there forever to get covered in that crap!

I found that link a few months ago in this SomethingAwful (http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2243176) thread. Everyone should read it, because it has bees and fire.

lots of bees, and lots of fire.

[jadefoodog]

just use a wet dry shop vac vacume them bastards off your walls then dump them into a trash can half full of gasoline (AWAY FROM YOUR HOME) then set them on fire

[monstertree]

Oh man, when I lived in Greece as a kid there was a similar infestation every summer. Hordes of these things clustered in trees and followed each other in lines from tree to tree like an insect procession, sometimes the lines would go as far as the eye could see!
I'm with Jens on this one, don't go near them and especially do not touch, I made that mistake once and learned the hard way :dead:

[jadefoodog]

just use a wet dry shop vac vacume them bastards off your walls then dump them into a trash can half full of gasoline (AWAY FROM YOUR HOME) then set them on fire

[egerie]

OHGODOHGODNO!!! I would seriously bail out and call an exterminator or something. And would have a really hard time getting back in the house.
When I was living in africa, I stupidly didn't check the inside of my pants on the first morning. A really bad idea when you feel something crawling on the inside of the pant is to slap it real hard... That motherfucker stung real bad and didn't even die (as it crawled out of the bottom cuff slightly woozy). Calamine became my best friend for 2 months.

Again, AAAAAAAAHOHGODOHGODNO!

[JAG.]

wait! i just got an idea.. learn to mind control these little fuckers and take over the town! you could have them do your homework and stuff.. - JAG