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Look mate, biological warfare is definitely not cricket.
What did the poor insects do to deserve this?
Were I to deploy a swarm of insects as a protest, I'd probably go for locusts since they're a pretty common feeder insect
Agreed. It might be selective empathy, but I feel bad for the crickets, though I suppose considering they were probably bought as feed they might not have had much of a future anyways. The TERFS deserved something like roaches or (if they could be released without affecting the activists) fleas, lice, ticks, etc. anyways.
Hope some comrade crickets made it out alive
They're actually the same animal as crickets! Sorta! It's really strange but when I a big group crickets will become locusts after a generation or so and in smaller groups vice versa.
Crickets are different from grasshoppers, they're in the same order but different families. Grasshoppers are the ones that turn into locusts.
Typically you can buy crickets from the Acheta or Gryllodes genus pretty easily, the ones for this prank probably cost around $70-100.
At least where I'm from, locusts in their non-swarm phase are called grasshoppers, which are distinct from the smaller and softer crickets. Although I have rarely heard cricket/grasshopper be used interchangeably in some regions.
In Finnish, the word "sirkka" is applied to a variety of insects in the order Orthoptera (crickets, grasshoppers, locusts and katydids)
"Sirkka" on its own means cricket
"Heinäsirkka," (lit. hay/grass cricket) = grasshopper
"Kulkusirkka," (lit. wandering cricket) = locust
On the other hand, we call katydids horse cats
Lady Bugs are pretty easy to buy In large numbers if I remember right, and they fly, and love to hang out in little nooks and crannies.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CWL25NWJ
1500 live Ladybugs for about $10.
Oooh yes that makes more sense. It's early 😴. I'm just imaging all these turfs trying to get ladybugs out of their hair.
The crickets bought for this kind of thing are typically sold for pet food (spiders, snakes and other insect pets eat them). They are always the silent kind because nobody wants noisy crickets as petfood.
The US Postal Service will ship and handle packages with live chicks inside.
It's not that the post service will do it that surprises me. It's that amazon does it. There's nothing like this on the UK variant although I know the post service will take live crickets and things.
If they didn't, I'd have to revise my business model a bit.
You can buy a lot of insects that people use for pest control (ladybugs, mantis egg cases) or animal food (crickets, various larva), or pets (ants, centipedes).
And apparently also hermit crabs, which seems extra cruel
Damn, a plague of insects. Gettin' biblical, I like it!... Just please no floods right now 🙏
