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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Oooh yes that makes more sense. It's early 😴. I'm just imaging all these turfs trying to get ladybugs out of their hair.
Look mate, biological warfare is definitely not cricket.
What did the poor insects do to deserve this?
Damn, a plague of insects. Gettin' biblical, I like it!... Just please no floods right now 🙏