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freeze your termites,
zap your termites,
/SAVE/ the termites.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuFvLVc9d…
We always knew this day would come
Anyway, more relevantly: A friend of mind once went into a porta-potty out in the woods somewhere late one night with just a headlamp (and underpants). As he sat there, he looked up... and saw the entire ceiling covered in Daddy Longlegs, ...all of them gently bobbing up and down and a semi-coordinated group 'pulsing' activity... the entire ceiling was pulsing with hundreds of the long-legged critters... pulsing... . pulsing... ..pulsing... . . He was a little bit psychedelically altered at the time, which didn't help matters.
Needless to say, he screamed and ran.
And those are big. Definitely not juveniles. Unless I'm slightly more confused than usual, the babies are so small they'd be barely visible that camera.
Eeeeeeeeee! *gasp*
Eeeeeeeeee! *gasp*
...okay, that was my fault for clicking the link.
But rationality takes a vacation when my reptilian brain freaks right the fuck out seeing something like this.
As Bill Murray says, "If spiders could fly, I'd never go outside."
I've always liked daddy long legs, but I admit that this video squicked me. Swarms of bugs are, I think, one of those things that are supposed to creep people out. After all, there might not be many kinds of swarming bugs that'll eat you alive/bite or sting you to death, but there are some, and if you don't run away quickly you're probably screwed. So it makes sense that humans have an instinct to run away from swarms of bugs, and it doesn't surprise me that people who aren't normally afraid of most creepy-crawlies instinctually shudder when they see a swarm.
Of course their running away is squick-inducing : 1. they're frightened themselves, 2. they're trying to frighten their predator away, 3. this rapid spreading ensures some will survive. Evolution made them frightening to us, so that we wouldn't keep on torturing or killing them all for fun. Remember the dodos ?
Anybody know why they huddle together like that ? I've never seen that happen here in France. Is is because they're too hot ? Too cold ? It's strange.
It's kind of yucky to see up close, google it if you dare!
Oh: spiders don't carry their young inside to explode out when you squish them - the spin cocoons of eggs which generally hatch after the adult spider is dead and gone. For you arachnophobics: spiders do us a large regularly by eating a lot of insects that would generally attack us directly - something the vast majority of spiders don't do.
I guess arachnophobia runs rampant.
Peace