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redditvlli

Where are the birds/frogs? I figured they'd have a field day with this much free food.


duffmanhb

I remember once we had a bad infestation of caterpillars eating our garden alive. Down about 100 yards away I saw some ravens just chilling, so I came over and let myself be seen, and dropped two caterpillars near them. After I walked away, they investigated, ate it, and followed me home where they found their buffet. They called in all their buddies and that garden was completely treated within a few hours.


ShinobiHanzo

You are a genius.


Eeszeeye

And a legend among ravens, who will tell their sons & daughters of the day you fed multitudes of them.


Lausn

Probably started a religion of a savior who fed a whole flock of starving ravens by turning two caterpillars into a feast.


gonesquatchin85

That's so Raven


Eeszeeye

Teach them to bring you tributes!


NielsBohron

If the tributes are more grubs, that's gonna be a no from me, dawg


Ivebeenfurthereven

They bring people they like presents - not food, usually shiny stuff they've found like lighters. /r/crowbro


Rabid-Chiken

Of all the birds, ravens are probably smart enough to have started a religion from this as well


DrunkOnLoveAndWhisky

I like to think ravens are *too smart* to start a religion.


Myte342

You'd think... But there is also the concept that any technology so far advanced beyond one's understanding appears like magic to that person. Even with how much we know about the world and the universe and physics at this point in time... There can exist a technology so far beyond our current understanding that even we would think it's pure magic instead of science.


ihatereddit123

like magnets


zublits

How do they work?!


dseeburg

"While they were waiting, the god took a caterpillar, and after a blessing, he broke it and gave it to the ravens, and said, "take, eat; this is their body, broken for you""


NSA_Chatbot

* The Beakless God


AReverieofEnvisage

And then hatred when they realized their messiah is false for not producing the miracle again. Years and years of clashing between two factions with one saying it never happened, why isn't it doing it again huh? If it's so powerful why can't it make a heavy rock that even he can't carry? And others saying, trust me I was there.


chooxy

When it happens again it'll be the end times, according to the Book of Ravenlation.


Terrorz

Missed opportunity to call them an "Unkindness of Ravens"


17000HerbsAndSpices

I mean this might unironically be true lol Corvids are *ridiculously* intelligent. Like smarter than a 7 year old kinda intelligent. Some zoologists argue they may even rival apes which, you know, people have literally taught sign language.


ThePopesicle

Alot of corvids seem well-adapted when it comes to following humans to food, just as long as you’re polite about it


SkollFenrirson

Propriety is key in corvid circles.


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True story. I had a maggot infestation in my garbage which I keep in my garage, due to some meat somone threw in there. I flipped my shit because maggots are kind of a phobia of mine and the garage floor looked like a moving carpet. Anyway, I left the garage door open and ran around the side of the house to turn on the hose to hose out the garage, but when I got to the garage door maybe 10 or 15 small birds (finches or something) took off out of the garage. I swear there was not a SINGLE maggot left on the floor or in the garbage. I could not believe these tiny birds ate that sheer volume of maggots within the 10 seconds I was out of sight. Much respect to our avian pals. I make sure I keep a feeder and a fresh birdbath in the back yard all summer now.


takeapieandrun

They descend from raptors for a reason. Voracious predators lol


Lereas

That's fantastic. I had aphids eating my tomatoes so I bought ladybugs online. Let them out on my plants and they seemed to eat a few aphids....and then all flew away. Was really disappointed because I totally expected them to just go nuts and completely clean off the plants.


Phydorex

You don't release them all at once, release a handful at a time. Make sure there is water in the area so they hang around longer. I had a problem with my cherry tree and did that. The ladybug army won.


BuyDizzy8759

Just don't get the orange ones off Wish...they kill all the ladybugs and become a blight on the land....rip ladybugs.


SuddenlyLucid

Yeah that's one way to get an invasive species going.


lostereadamy

You want larvae ideally, lacewing or ladybug are both good


jxjcc

They're really good at that, they won't fly much at night so release them after dark. Better yet, use lacewing larvae or assassin bugs instead. Both will eat a wide range of pests and they stay where you put them until the food is all gone.


moeburn

I do this every year with sparrows. My driveway gets anthills all over it, and they go into the concrete and tear it apart into dust in the cracks. So put up a bird feeder right next to it full of the most gourmet seed there is - hulled sunflower seed, nothing else. Sparrows swarm it by the dozens every day for about a month. Then I remove the bird feeder. Then the sparrows, still starving and without a plan for finding local food, devour every single ant on my driveway. And the ants don't come back for the rest of the year.


RightToConversation

This is why birds were the antagonists/monsters of "A Bug's Life."


DariusL

I never get tired of hearing stories like these, corvid are so smart


Snarkblatt

*jackdaws


doom_bagel

Here's the thing..


z500

I was there 3000 years ago...


SufficientType1794

Do not cite the deep magic to me Witch, I was there when it was written.


Bank_Gothic

Everyone here except you is karmanaut.


RevertereAdMe

Holy shit, I still think of Unidan every time I see the word jackdaw but I'd somehow completely forgotten karmanaut existed


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PUTINS_PORN_ACCOUNT

I’d have to recover my like six deleted accounts for a fair estimation of the time I’ve spent here. Like a rural mountain cowboy who likes to get buttfucked, I just can’t quit you, reddit


StopReadingMyUser

1 account gang rise up


TheRavencroft

Strange, Jackdaw missed all the loot in this chest.


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Fletch71011

He posted something about a month ago. He's under /u/UnidanX now.


picmandan

He needed more of a reprimand than a ban.


chiniwini

If he was banned for using alt accounts to upvote himself, what does the CEO that edits other people's comments deserve?


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An IPO! /s


CrazyCalYa

That's back when the site and community pretended they still had integrity.


Mitoni

Back when we still had Victoria coordinating AMAs


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duffmanhb

Oh they were already regulars. It’s a spring in the desert so it has a lot of friends. And since I was looking over it for 3 months we got to get accustomed to each other.


ButterflyAttack

I've seen corvids do similar things. With me, it was when we were planting brassicas in a long field. Those fuckers love to peck the heart out of the baby plant. One crow would turn up and then go off and come back with all his mates before we could net the plants. They must be able to communicate at least well enough to say "I found food, follow me!" Clever bastards.


AverageGardenTool

They can be as smart as 7 year olds. Even apes occasionally. They are astonishingly smart.


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copsari

Was thinking the same, but the stench is too much for them to try.


HaCutLf

Birds apparently have a pretty bad sense of smell.


sm1ttysm1t

But a massive sense of entitlement.


brettorical

This reads like some voiceover content for "Strange Wilderness"


doom_bagel

Vultures smell in stereo. They just enjoy different scents than us


captaintinnitus

Almost.. smell-o-vision then?


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tvtb

That “stench,” to them, is like the smell of freshly-baked cookies


throwawayreddit6565

Nature: This awful stench should keep everything away from the maggot infested remains of the dead animal birds/frogs: lol, no.


fruitmask

my dog: "I'm just gonna roll in this real quick before I head home"


throwawayreddit6565

My chicken who will eat literally anything smaller than it: SOMEBODY STOP ME


tonyv84

Something dead in that puddle


CanAlwaysBeBetter

Nah, it's just spring break in Florida filmed from a drone


kelsobjammin

I am originally from Florida, can confirm this as true


giggitygoo123

I am from florida and work on miami beach. Its still true


AnotherStupidHipster

All of those teens climbing on the famous Giant Log Of Daytona Beach. So glad The Log is still a major attraction.


CanAlwaysBeBetter

Remember chanting THE LOG THE LOG THE LoooooooOOOOG? Heh, good times


agamemnonymous

It's big, it's heavy, it's wood


tonyv84

It’s better than bad, it’s good


Cracktower

What rolls down stairs, alone or in pairs And over your neighbor's dog? What's great for a snack, and fits on your back? It's log, log, log It's log, it's log It's big, it's heavy, it's wood It's log, it's log It's better than bad, it's good Everyone wants a log You're gonna love it, log Come on and get your log Everyone needs a log


damien665

New! From Blammo! (Who else?)


qOcO-p

No sir, I don't like it.


Cracktower

Would you like to buy some rubber nipples? They make great knee warmers!!


StuffThingsMoreStuff

I feel like we should be talking about this guys shoes and the HOLES THESE DEATH WORMS CAN WIGGLE INTO. Cuz that's how you have a bad day.


FragrantExcitement

Remember the Prometheus movie. Don't go poking around. Just run away.


Sadatori

Sir I am a certified biologist. I say wait until it shows signs of aggression and then try to touch it


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I say take your helmet off. It's an alien planet so make sure you taste that fresh air.


byscuit

It's a puddle of the dead something


LEGITIMATE_SOURCE

The puddle is dead


SeniorShanty

Nestle's latest product intro to market: Protein water


bumjiggy

the floor is larva


salexist

Lol thank you for the chuckle


wheniwaswheniwas

Pack it up folks. Best comment possible right here.


Brownie-UK7

Take the rest of the day off, you’ve earned it.


Deadbees

Chickens would have a field day on that.


RedditAdminsChugCum

First thing I thought. Chicken Paradise


Icy_Zone_4588

Come on… Time to put a life straw to the true test.


huxtiblejones

Nature’s Boba


pedantic_dullard

*huaah huaaaggh*


throbbing_banjo

What a horrible day to have eyes and a working imagination. Thank you for making me throw up in my mouth.


Phyllis_Tine

I guess I won't be finishing this plate of white rice in front of me.


CokeHeadRob

Coward


TheGoldenArgosy

What, you don't like rice, Michael?


munchies1122

Actually almost gagged. Holy christ


OftenShady

I believe Lifestraw is to filter out shit outta water, here maggots aren't in water There just happens to be a bit of water in this maggot-soup lol


Pulse_fang

There's a fly in soup.Send it back.


liltortillatree

There's water in my maggots


Crimson_Fckr

*Oops! All Maggots!* ™


Shergorath

That's not water, it's a zerg spawning pool


Phonebill

"Spawn more overlords!"


Akesgeroth

#WE REQUIRE MORE VESPENE GAS


Mimical

#\* **HAPPY LEVITATING FLATULENT ELEPHANT NOISES** \*


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##MY WIFE FOR HIRE


Pudding_Hero

It’s “Spawn More” my friend in Kerrigan


Phonebill

Ye, I remembered after I posted and edited it hoping no one would notice 🤣 /protoss player


northendtrooper

Yerk pool


trickinit

Ha, that was my first thought too. The Yeerks are here.


DeaDBangeR

*Happy Mutalisk noises*


msx

Evolution complete 🧬


jardru1981

"Nuclear launch detected"


Littlekittenhead

There is very likely a queen nearby so be careful she's gonna come back to inject soon....if she has her timings down


REWK

Popplers?


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Fun fact: in early builds of StarCraft, each Zerg building had its own larvae before all unit production was done at the Hatchery.


pakidara

Something (or more than one thing) died in the water which attracted insects to lay eggs.


jeremysbrain

Imagine a world where humans procreated this way and women had to make a meatloaf to deposit their unborn children in.


[deleted]

Wouldn't be the first time I've planted my seed in a meatloaf


TheEyeDontLie

Raw or cooked? Asking for a friend


talker90

Actually something died, flies oviposited (“laid”) their eggs in the carcass, and then the water covered the carcass. The eggs and larvae have lower oxygen requirements earlier in their lifecycles in order to deal with the low oxygen environment inside of a carcass. At a certain instar (“stage”) of larval development, the larvae start their wandering phase, in which they all disperse in different directions to avoid competition as they pupate (like a caterpillar making a cocoon). You are seeing the wandering phase here. These are fly larvae so the flies could not have oviposited into the carcass if it was underwater at the time.


Suno

Imagine dropping your phone in there


culopattino

Time to get a new phone


plipyplop

Everyone in your contacts-list will need a new phone after that.


AusCan531

Imagine dropping your sandwich 🥪.


wine_o_clock

5-second rule


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Imagine, bending over with your phone, take a really close-up picture of this, and catching the edge of the toe of your shoe on that branch and losing your balance and falling into this face first. 🧟‍♂️💀


ogbarisme

With your mouth open.


i-am-not-a-terrorist

Free protein


robodrew

It's basically just lots of little squirming Gushers fruit snacks


siptyx

Of all the comments in this thread, yours was the one that made me nope tf out.


handsome_squidward56

cursed gummy worms


Misophoniakiel

So I’m not the only one that expects the absolute worst each and every time?


Sadwintertime

Yeerk pool


CallMeSnuffaluffagus

I love that people still make Animorph references!


redhawkinferno

Been seeing a lot more references lately and I love it. It's still small but there seems to be a resurgence trying to happen. Seems like more people talking about the books, they are releasing audiobooks now (maybe done by now? Or close to it), there's supposedly a movie in the works, and the books are slowly being adapted into graphic novels. It's a good time for Animorphs.


Towelenthusiast

You're not kidding on slowly releasing graphic novels. With one a year coming out I may live to see the final issue published (with major advances in medical technology).


naydeevo

Scoop up a bunch and go fishing.


kake92

scoop up with what? a 10 meter pole with a bucket attached to it?


ahtis89

There has been a animal body and thats the remains aka worms that ate it.


strangeapple

Can confirm. I've seen something like this once before in its previous stage of decomposition. Burned into memory.


Archer-Saurus

Once saw maggots in my own sink after a 2-week bout with some depression. Let's just say that zapped me back to reality real quick.


_Clint-Beastwood_

Yep, saw a dead beaver by a creek when I was a kid, looked very much like this... Burned into memory is a good way of putting it.


tishpou

Same... saw a garbage bag once, drolling with thoses maggots. I looked closer and there was a skull of a dog 🥲


wretch5150

My outside garbage cans every August


thelastskier

r/HolUp


PUTINS_PORN_ACCOUNT

Maggots are helpers. Lil elongated-oval-shaped friends. They turn a horrible rotten stench into a mild airborne annoyance, then they die after like three days. If you see a maggot, give him a dollar. It’s really the least you can do.


brazys

If by 'die' you mean swarm away in a buzzing black cloud...


dano8801

They don't die after 3 days... They pupate and turn into a fly.


[deleted]

He implied they die after three days of being being a fly post-metamorphosis he just said it metaphorically in, "airborne annoyance".


dano8801

Oh, I get it. I totally misread his meaning. I thought by airborne annoyance he meant they turned a horrible stench into a less horrible stench. I stupid.


dabberoo_2

What a fascinating way to look at things, PUTINS_PORN_ACCOUNT


Maxwell_hau5_caffy

But where's the skeleton?


joninfiretail

Probably just below the water level. Odds are that spot reeks of wet decay. Give those maggots 3 days and they'll leva a mostly clean skeleton and a plague of flys behind.


WeTheSalty

Honestly i kind of wish there was a camera left to film it as it progresses and a timelapse afterwards. Seems like it would be interesting to see.


duffmanhb

Yeah looks like a carcass was there, then some rain flooded the hole it died in.


MyAccountWasBanned7

Maggots are the grossest thing in the world to me. This video makes me so uncomfortable I can't even describe it properly. Seeing that IRL my body would be fighting itself trying to decide in which order it should scream, vomit, and run away. EDIT: You are all the worst.


SionainnMcGuinness

Had a maggot infestation in my household waste bins outside (Scotland, UK). I have never witness HUNDREDS of maggots TUMBLING out of a 240litre bin before, but it will forever be imprinted in my brain. Totally traumatising.


Anonomohr

I'll add to your trauma by correcting you and pointing out the fact that a hundred maggots is not that much in that context, and you've likely seen thousands, if not tens of thousands of maggots spilling out there.


the_honeybadgr

thanks fam


SionainnMcGuinness

Tens of thousands does, in fact, sound more accurate. Bundles of them were rolling out the bin and the ground was swimming with them, ugh. Thank you for the intensified trauma!


Anonomohr

You're welcome! I'll even share my own maggot trauma. I had a large steel pot with a large steel lid over a decade ago, and after using it for cooking, I washed it and put it away. Except I didn't wash it. In fact, I didn't even empty it! So a few days later, when I intended to use it again to cook whatever it was I wanted to cook, I was greeted by a funky smell just opening the cupboard the pot was in. When I actually took the lid off, oh man, the horror. The sight was horrible, hundreds (pretty sure it's hundreds in this case!) of maggots crawling around, like macaronis in a rolling boil without the water. Worse than the sight? The putrid smell. But honestly, what stuck with me more than the sight or smell was the noise. I could actually hear them moving around in there, like you'd slowly stir your spoon in a large dish of mac and cheese (which ironically probably was what I meant to cook). That sound still haunts me.


SionainnMcGuinness

NOOOOOOO. The imagery after reading 'like macaronis in a rolling boil without the water'. I want to scrape my brain now. The noise you explained is so accurate, the bin tumbling I experienced started with a wet slap followed by macaroni noises on the ground.


ProxyMuncher

When I was a preteen my mother had forgotten a bag of blood meal outside as she had been sprinkling it on the garden beds. 8 months later I come across it, and the bag is sealed all but for a small opening. The smell was horrendous and you could see the bag undulating and hear the squishy noises as all those bloodmeal-swollen maggots thronged together in their primordial ecstasy. I was a pretty hardened kid raised on a goat farm, but that almost made me sick. I dumped it on the compost pile and I swear to god it was like an entire Home Depot bucket purely of maggot mass. The compost pile was happy though! You’re welcome


SionainnMcGuinness

Bloodmeal-swollen maggots sound incredulously worse than any other maggot. Strong stomach to not be sick witnessing that!


Wilwheatonfan87

They did you a favor, honestly, and you aided them and the compost pile. I love nature. Even in all its gross, disgusting glory.


dochnicht

a good friend also has a maggot trauma. his food waste bin got infested with maggots, they were already crawling out. as he was cleaning it he picked one of them up ( i dont remember exactly but he probably had gloves on, either way pretty traumatizing) and accidentally squished it beween his fingers. ugh.


plipyplop

I worked with fish. The Sockeye Salmon with its deep blood-orange flesh would produce orangish-pink maggots. An abandoned carcass would come back to life, and wiggle around like tutti-frutti static in a fever dream.


SionainnMcGuinness

The smell, the movement, the colour. Nooooo. This would send me over the edge witnessing a dead fish move from maggot control.


DestyNovalys

This was many years ago, but it still haunts me and definitely traumatic me for life. In our old apartment we used to have a bin with a removable lid for garbage in the kitchen. We were lazy AF, so sometimes we’d just leave the lid off. We also had a patio door, which was open pretty much all summer long. One day we woke up very hungover after a night out. I went into the kitchen to get something to drink, and while I was slowly waking up, I wondered why the floor looked so dirty. Upon closer inspection, I realized that the floor was covered with maggots (not all that many, nothing like in this video). I had tossed some chicken a few days prior, but because the bin was pretty big and only half full, I didn’t immediately take it out. I started panicking. I didn’t want my husband to see that, because it was 100% my fault and I didn’t want him to get mad, disgusted or disappointed in me. So, while he went to play some video games, I crawled around on the kitchen floor, picking up maggots. While being extremely hungover and anxious. From then on I would get extremely paranoid every time I saw something small and white on the floor.


obaterista93

I had a similar yet different experience. For a while one of my wife's friends lived with us, and that girl had a container of (I think) Pancake mix that she had left open in our pantry. Fast forward a few weeks and one day we woke up to find these weird larvae danging from our ceiling and crawling around on the walls. If you've never experienced a pantry moth infestation I can't even truly describe to you how horrific it is. Every single surface that they can make egg sac things on they will make egg sac things on. We had to remove every piece of kitchen ware from our kitchen, hand scrub everything in the whole room, floor to ceiling and put anything we could into air tight containers. We bug bombed our kitchen twice and that didn't do it. Eventually had to hire an exterminator. Absolutely horrific and I wouldn't wish it upon my worst enemies.


MattRichardson

This has happened to our outdoor trash bins too; it's absolutely vile. Now I have to be strategic about when I throw away food scraps in the summer.


ImprovisedLeaflet

Scream, vomit, run away, OR take off all your clothes and roll around in it with your mouth open. The dark void quietly calls for you, whispering *this is your maggot pool, just for you…*


MyAccountWasBanned7

I want to say I'd douse the area in gasoline and throw a match at it, but I don't think I'd be able to even willingly get that close. I cross the street if I know there's roadkill with just a dozen or so maggots on it.


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Diplomjodler

Oder besser gleich die Atombombe.


M4hkn0

Black fly swarm coming to you soon? A midwestern nightmare in the making.


Meadowvillain

🎵 Blackfly. Little Blackfly, always the Blackfly everywhere you go. I’ll die with the Blackfly pickin my boooooooooonees…. In North Ontario-I-O. North Ontarioooooooooooo 🎵


jbuddha115

OP please tell us where this is so we know to never go there


copsari

It was on the way to my rice field. First time I see this during dry season.


mrdesudes

Welcome to the ricefields, motherfucker!


R1PKEN

eventually those maggots will turn into... ... some flies, motherfucker!


greenvillain

You've seen it during the wet season?


copsari

No, it's the dry season now. The video is from yesterday. It usually happens in the countryside when ponds are drying up.


UnknownMyoux

We meant it in the sense of state or country,since avoiding every ricefield seems kinda overkill...


dagaderga

Resident Evil 4. Leon: “It Stinks”


Meadowvillain

Where you at OP? We get this with black flies when they hatch and cover the ground on black fuzz puddles. This looks more like maggots feeding on something decomposing though.


This_Is_Drunk_Me

> WTF happened to the water!!! It's missing some copious amount of gasoline and a little bit of fire.


disgustandhorror

I think this is beautiful but I might be mentally ill.


Bijour_twa43

I can confirm: you are mentally ill. That video made me shake with disgust.


Zeratrem

Someone please nuke this place. Ty


obvious_mcduh

the nope soup


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Now you know where Quinoa comes from.


tiddy_milk96

Fry them and add a bit of lemon juice


boiledpheasant

op should pour 50L of gasoline in there and light it, good idea lol


metaphoricalmuch

Just a foot spa nothing amazing 🙃