What the hell are these? (pics & video)

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Posted: 10/3/2004 6:38:54 PM EDT

What the hell are these?

My father thinks they are woolly aphids. I've googled them and found a myriad of information, but none of the pictures look quite like these things. Descriptions sound correct, though.

So, what the hell?

ETA: Added another video at the top of page 2!

Jonathan

Posted: 10/3/2004 6:40:23 PM EDT

[#1]

Burn the fuckers.

Posted: 10/3/2004 6:40:26 PM EDT

[#2]

Aliens

Posted: 10/3/2004 6:43:50 PM EDT

[#3]

www.uidaho.edu/so-id/entomology/aphids.htm

Posted: 10/3/2004 6:45:57 PM EDT

[#4]

www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/ent/notes/O&T/trees/note06/note06.html

ipm.ncsu.edu/current_ipm/03PestNews/03News8/ornament.html

Posted: 10/3/2004 6:46:40 PM EDT

[#5]

Desert Eagle 50.

Take in a sample to your County Extension Office. If they can't identify them right there, they can send them in to be indentified by a State Entomologist.

Posted: 10/3/2004 6:48:50 PM EDT

[#6]

Quoted:
Burn the fuckers.

Don't burn them! Doing so would likely lead to an intergalactic war.

Posted: 10/3/2004 6:51:27 PM EDT

[#7]

Take off and nuke 'em from orbit, its the only way to be sure.

Posted: 10/3/2004 6:52:09 PM EDT

[#8]

Quoted:
Desert Eagle 50.

Take in a sample to your County Extension Office. If they can't identify them right there, they can send them in to be indentified by a State Entomologist.

Yeah, that's in the works already. One of the pages I read said the county extension office needed to be notified of any sightings of woolly aphids.

My fiance decided I should post it here, 'cause y'all provide hours of entertainment on the weirdest damn things.

Jonathan

Posted: 10/3/2004 6:53:17 PM EDT

[#9]

Do they eat plant leaves, or brains?

If they eat plant leaves, I'd probably either leave 'em alone or spray them with pesticide depending on the type of leaves they eat.

If they eat brains, I'd run. It doesn't look like they could go fast enough to catch me.

(I don't know what they are but felt like being a smartass anyway)

Posted: 10/3/2004 6:54:29 PM EDT

[#10]

Quoted:
Aliens

ROTFL.........beat me to it!

Posted: 10/3/2004 6:55:28 PM EDT

[#11]

Any meteors crash nearby lately? I remember seeing creatures like this after a meteor crash in a movie at the Saturday Matinee.

MT

edit to add: I just watched your movie...not many things creep me out...but these do and I would

those little bastages before they start taking over the world.

Posted: 10/3/2004 6:56:05 PM EDT

[#12]

Try fire, if that doesnt work, try acid, if that attemp fail,

Try your copy of little boy and fat man.

Posted: 10/3/2004 7:00:03 PM EDT

[#13]

run, run as far as you can and never look back

Posted: 10/3/2004 7:11:13 PM EDT

[#14]

I saw them on X-files. Something to do with cutting old growth trees.

Posted: 10/3/2004 7:19:36 PM EDT

[#15]

Quoted:
I saw them on X-files. Something to do with cutting old growth trees.

Yeah. They cover you in a web and suck the life out of you.

Several forest rangers died (after they leveled a .45 at SubnetMask).

Posted: 10/3/2004 7:22:37 PM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:
Quoted:
I saw them on X-files. Something to do with cutting old growth trees.

Yeah. They cover you in a web and suck the life out of you.

Several forest rangers died (after they leveled a .45 at SubnetMask).

LoL

Posted: 10/3/2004 7:24:43 PM EDT

[#17]

Albino brain chiggers

Posted: 10/3/2004 7:25:52 PM EDT

[#18]

I'll print a picture and show it to my mother when i see her next, she went to Pennstate For Horticulture/Landscape Design. Get back to ya!

Posted: 10/3/2004 7:27:23 PM EDT

[#19]

Quoted:
Quoted:
I saw them on X-files. Something to do with cutting old growth trees.

Yeah. They cover you in a web and suck the life out of you.

Several forest rangers died (after they leveled a .45 at SubnetMask).

I saw that episode too!

Posted: 10/3/2004 7:28:34 PM EDT

[#20]

How do they react to a magnifying glass?

Posted: 10/3/2004 7:34:19 PM EDT

[#21]

Those videos creep me right the hell out. Ugh.

Posted: 10/3/2004 7:44:43 PM EDT

[#22]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Quoted:
I saw them on X-files. Something to do with cutting old growth trees.

Yeah. They cover you in a web and suck the life out of you.

Several forest rangers died (after they leveled a .45 at SubnetMask).

LoL

+1

Posted: 10/3/2004 7:48:54 PM EDT

[#23]

they seem rather large for wooly aphids and are on the wrong species of tree... cant think of anything else they would be though...

Posted: 10/3/2004 8:01:08 PM EDT

[#24]

I seen the same thing down in south Mississippi this weekend and wondered the same thing. I grew up down there and have never seen such a thing in all my life.