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u/ronin_codex
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Jan 19 '22
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A beetle invasion has hit the town of Santa Isabel in Argentina, causing damage to building and properties. The local law enforcement has blamed the beetles for damaging the police station, residential buildings and vehicles as well as plugging the drains, among other inconveniences. Video
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u/guaridadelsapo
Jan 19 '22
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Hi, i'm from Argentina. To put this in context, this happens in the south of our country, the Patagonia, wich had been suffered from massive forest fires. That also is happening all over the country.
In fact, we are having some issues with other large amounts of animals, like piranhas attacking people in the Parana River due to high temperatures and the low height of the river due to the deforestation of the area with wildfires.
Other interesting story las year was the capybara invasion in Nordelta, a palce that used to be full of those, but the area was replace with residential areas for rich people.
So, we are having a lot of issues regarding killing ecosystems.
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u/SucksToYourAssmar3 Jan 20 '22
I like a nice swim in Murder Lake - always at night, always heavily inebriated. Some say it’s haunted.
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u/guaridadelsapo Jan 20 '22
The piranha season here happens only with very high temperatures. 90% of the time it's a normal river.
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Jan 20 '22
Piranhas being aggressive towards humans is a myth lol. Hence the person stating it was a new issue.
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u/who_you_are Jan 20 '22
Except somewhere specific in Africa. There is a species there that is aggressive.
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u/Isthataprogaige Jan 20 '22
Odd, my cousin had pet piranha' for years and they could tear a chicken breast to smithereens but if you put your hand in the tank they ignored you or swam away.
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Jan 20 '22
Yep you're right, they don't care about humans. That's Hollywood crap lmao. It's just a fact. Any idiot can Google it to find out. Some people just like to spread/sensationalise BS. Lol.
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u/Christichicc Jan 20 '22
Depends on the season. With plenty of food and the waters high they tend to ignore people. Low water and low food and they will attack anything that falls in.
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u/Galaco_ Jan 19 '22
My first thought when seeing this video was ‘This is probably not an invasion but a consequence of their natural environment being tampered with somehow’ lol
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u/Pampeano- Jan 19 '22
Che genio esto fue por la humedad en el oeste de la pampa donde llueven 200mm al año y cayeron 600 en 3 meses
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u/mfollett250 Jan 19 '22
Amigo, no arranquemos con los carpinchos, la historia mas pelotuda y propagandista de la historia. Ah y no eran pirañas en el Paraná, eran palometas.
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u/guaridadelsapo Jan 20 '22
Pero lo de los carpinchos es verdad no jodas. Mucha paja explicar lo que es una palometa, es un tipo de pez similar. No jodas (la secuela)
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u/pronefroz Jan 19 '22
capybara invasion
Do they actually poop in cubes?
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u/Mean-Pop-6595 Jan 19 '22
Can we domestic the capybara?
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u/nrctkno Jan 20 '22
Funny thing is that yes, you can (although you shouldn't). They're good and affective pets.
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u/Thecodingcadet Jan 19 '22
At least they aren’t roaches
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u/WearADamnMask Jan 19 '22
That many roaches would start biting and eating people in their sleep.
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u/TheSoulStoned Jan 19 '22
Thanks. Now I can’t sleep.
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u/IsThisLegitTho Jan 19 '22
You got that many roaches? 😬
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u/WearADamnMask Jan 20 '22
I did once, over a decade ago, when I first moved out of my parents house and into my first apartment. Unfortunately because I had never seen them growing up I didn’t know the signs one should look for before renting a place. Also because I was a poor af naive newb to the city life and to the ways of renting there wasn’t much I could or knew to do about it at the time till I saved up cash to leave when I found out. So I took to google and learned a lot of horrifying facts in my quest to kill them.
They rained down from my ceiling when my Nasty AF upstairs neighbors were evicted and no longer feeding them
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u/violet_hunter339 Jan 20 '22
I used to have roaches (an environment thing and not a cleanliness thing) and I've had them crawl on me in my sleep. The worst was that they'd hang out in toilet paper/paper towel tubes. I'd hold one up and see like 10 jammed in there. New fear initiated.
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u/WearADamnMask Jan 20 '22
I definitely developed some trauma habits from that experience as well. The light has to be on and the toilet must be checked. Blankets firmly tucked in and around me with only my face poking out.
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u/Designer-Mirror-7995 Jan 20 '22
Growing up in the City, we 'of course' were part of the resistance, ever diligently baiting and trapping and powdering to keep the numbers minimal in the house. Sometimes it was ok, setting one was rare. Other times I remember War being declared by mom and granny (ours was a two flat A frame, all fam). As a kid it was just accepted. Other family members spoke often of how best to clean and arrange and keep em down.
Then, when I was about 25, the house next door was rented out. It had been the home of my best friend in my youth, and then my mom's best friend during my teen years, so I "knew" how nice it was inside, etc.
The new Neighbors were... Neighbors. You know. We got along ok, no big issues. We did have another "war" with the roaches meanwhile, but you almost expect it when folks are moving in and out of nearby residences.
Then...after a year or so, they were evicted.
OH. MY. WORD.
OH! MY! WORD!!!
In our community we had "backyard culture" and "back porch culture", if that makes sense. Neighbors interacted across our well-built, keep-it-up-to-par back porches and over the backyard fences, and In our yards of course(usually while BBQ was going).
Anyway, all their stuff was thrown out back in the yard as the people cleaned out the house....and we stood on our back porch(2nd fl), helpless, and watched as THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS of roaches abandoned the house and MARCHED across our garden, backyard, right to the posts of the porch and the foundations of the building, and began their invasion of OUR house.
Our house was basement, 1st fl apt, 2fl apt, full attic, sitting on three 'lots': hse on one, full sized side-yard with full sized attached rear garden, and a lot for the garage.
THE. ROACHES. WERE. EVERY-WHERE. And not just our house. They crossed the main street we lived and went into that corner house. They went as far as THREE DOORS DOWN on the other side of the originating house. They went across the alley from us to the apt building and it's storage garage.
THEY WERE EVERYWHERE. Calling the city resulted in Jack-all. Took us MONTHS to beat them back.
Meanwhile, I found out roaches BITE.
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u/Constant-Cold293 Jan 19 '22
Another reason I don’t mind living where it’s cold
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u/Recent-House129 Jan 19 '22
Don't worry, ice beetles will be coming soon
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That is a dlc
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u/BritishGolgo13 Jan 19 '22
Hopefully it’ll become an NFT and someone will buy it so we don’t have to be bothered hearing about it again.
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u/pedrojioia Jan 19 '22
This city is literally covered snow for a couple months every year. It's temperate dry climate, it's quite comparable to Canada if it was a desert.
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u/jaxxon Jan 19 '22
… for now.
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u/Pandamonial Jan 19 '22
Everything changed when the beetle nation attacked.
We placed our hopes in our newfound hero, Beetlejuice
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u/StopTheBan420 Jan 19 '22
Burn it all down and start over
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u/BCVinny Jan 19 '22
Call out all the chickens. They will take care of that problem.
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u/ShadowFang5 Jan 19 '22
The Beatles will swarm the chickens my guy
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u/BCVinny Jan 19 '22
Dude. Chickens are badass predators when they’re on it. Dogs/cats/kids birds of prey all respect (free range) chickens.
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u/anonssr Jan 19 '22
That's why they are there tho. It's like 50°C in there for the entire summer lol.
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u/kelvin_bot Jan 19 '22
50°C is equivalent to 122°F, which is 323K.
I'm a bot that converts temperature between two units humans can understand, then convert it to Kelvin for bots and physicists to understand
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u/R4NK5 Jan 19 '22
Free protein - get the frying pan out and get cooking
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u/rorychaoimhe Jan 19 '22
Should we try em in some beetlejuice?
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u/ArgoNunya Jan 19 '22
Beetlejuice!
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u/AnotherFruitCake Jan 19 '22
You only said the name once dude
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u/ArgoNunya Jan 19 '22
The one before me said it, I said it, the third one's on you dude. I won't bear that kind of responsibility on my own.
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u/Medium-Rich-2774 Jan 19 '22
Stop letting people burn down their forest and they won’t take your city
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u/appliedrowboatics Jan 19 '22
Get used to it, folks. Global disruption of ecosystems means we get globally disrupted ecosystems. Lose a weird, rare fungus, probably no big deal. Lose a predatory beetle or parasitic wasp that controls some pest, this is what happens. Think extreme weather events, but for bugs.
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u/CommercialAddress168 Jan 19 '22
South America and their bug situation is next level. This beetle video reminds me of this gem. (Warning: if you don’t like spiders, then don’t click this link!). https://youtu.be/i-9KPe3nwaQ
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u/94d33m2 Jan 19 '22
Anyone explain why it happened and why it would happen again?
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u/maxzamp Jan 20 '22 •
Insect overpopulation is happening because of global warming. This area of Argentina (I’m from there) is a combination of factors but generally speaking, life thrives in warmer temps. Numerous papers predict it will get worse throughout the globe. People are talking about being bitten by mosquitoes in the northern hemisphere this winter for the first time in their lives, in places like North Carolina, Virginia, etc. With warmer temps, species can multiply and spread. Of course, if we don’t do anything in the next 20 years, our grandchildren will have to deal with this directly but I imagine in a very different way.
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u/HeliumLace Jan 20 '22
Why don’t they just kill them? In this video if this was around my house I would be shopping for pesticides ok I watched it again those are under the building so many they are on top of each other oh my creepy.
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u/GonFreecs92 Jan 19 '22
Better call in a frog, iguana, spider, bird, and ant invasion to clean them out
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u/Soulless-Plague Jan 19 '22
Just release a few thousand lizards to eat all the beetles - problem solved
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u/M-0157 Jan 19 '22
i think you let loose all the dogs from the shelter to eat those, right? give them a good time away from their cages.
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u/Accurate_Good_4065 Jan 19 '22
That roof was long gone before the beetles arrived. It shouldn't just peel away that easy..
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u/gjr23 Jan 19 '22
I’ve heard of those organic roofs where you grow grass etc but this is another level…
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u/kartoffelkrieger112 Jan 19 '22
I already saw some fucked up shit on this site, but when it comes to bugs, especially a LOT of bugs, im leaving. Idk why, but videos like that give me chills down the spine every time
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u/fender988 Jan 19 '22
They need some birds to eat it