Teenage trans activists release 6,000 crickets on transphobic LGB Alliance conference | Trans Kids Deserve Better
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“Squash them, kill them, kill the buggers!” a speaker urged the audience.
  • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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    3 months ago

    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.

    • wax_worm_futures [comrade/them]
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      3 months ago

      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.

      • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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        3 months ago

        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