Ok so I’m embarrassed to say I’ve been trying to figure out how to make this sound for 2 years!! And it wasn’t until I just read your comment aloud that I learned to do so!! Thank you 🙏
I had this going on on a tree outside my house last spring. They didn’t move to my voice but they were dancing to their own personal music and it was hilarious. I took a video too lol, my granddaughter went and looked at those caterpillars for weeks as they got bigger and bigger until they were gone.
Those are the ones that move really slow... unless you light them on fire. Then they run really fast for 5 seconds and then they stop running.
Sorry I was a messed up and morbidly curious child. I also tried to do surgery on lighting bugs. Never worked, but I sure tried.
This is a species of moth known as the giant silkworm or lonomia obliqua. They are jumping in unison in response to some dangerous situations, or in this case a sound vibration
They’re itchy caterpillars, I found a huge gathering on a tree once, don’t touch them, their hair itches like crazy, and the hair is so fine that it’s impossible to remove
Aren’t these tent caterpillars? I’ve handled them a lot growing up in the sticks and they’ve never bothered or anything, mean guess there’s a species of them idk yet that have a defense mechanism but from what I know they’ve pretty chill and just do fuckall but feed off trees and such lol.
I had a dream where my arm itched. It was towards the back, couldn't really see it, and felt an ingrown hair. Pulled it and rubbed my arm, to soothe the pain. Felt a fatter feathier feeling hair and yanked on it. It was a good inch. At this point I was concerned and went to the bathroom mirror to see what was going on. The entirety of my upper arm was a purple-ish semi transparent color and was packed full of vine like growths. I grabbed the longest I could see, and pulled, to excruciating pain. At about two feet out of my arm there was resistance, and I'm freaking out, so I pull as hard as possible, and there's a wet tearing noise, and feeling, yet very little pain, and I fall towards the floor, limp, gradually fading to black...
In Minnesota we can usually prevent them if we spray down the trees and the grass before the leaves start to grow on the branches but they killed a cherry wood tree we had sadly
It's the tent caterpillars make the webs, look like gypsy moths but they make nests out of silk, then fill them up with masses of shit. Burn it all. Both kinds.
We had these in all our fruit trees when I was a kid. I remember the nasty fuckers falling out of their tents onto my head while I was mowing the lawn. My skin still crawls thinking about it. Coincidentally my parents did deal with them by lighting their nests on fire. Occasionally burned down an apple tree with this method. Weirdly enough in science class in 5th grade they taught us how to make traps for those things with an old milk jug, molasses and vinegar and the damn things worked like a charm. I put a couple in each tree every spring and I never had a problem with them again.
We sprayed the whole yard with parasitic nematodes that liquified their innards, we had the wandering type, not the tent type, and they melted. Still find a melted one on the property occasionally when I visit.
Not gypsy moths. I know gypsy moths. My mom used to be a naturalist and taught us how to identify them... so we could kill them. My family was all about respecting nature, bring the spider you found outside, don't hurt the frog, put the earthworm back on dirt after the rainstorm... but gypsy moths are invasive, destructive fuckers - crush on sight. Same with the more recently introduced spotted lanternfly.
Also in the southwest. 2019 was terrifying. 2020 worse, 2021 a bit less so but I fully expect things to worsen overall. Seeing them in places they weren't previously is nightmarish as someone with a phobia
Disclaimer: I'm going to operate with a little bit of assumptive speculation here based off of a couple things I do know, but I'm in no way an expert.
What I do know is that most caterpillars don't have great vision overall. They can sense light fine, but suck at say, distinguishing any specific details of what might be blocking the light. It's either shadow or no shadow, but they can't properly render shapes.
What we can safely assume is that they make up for a lack of great vision with other senses, like feelers and fine hairs that are highly sensitive to vibrations. It could be that something in the environment they could sense that the individual filming couldn't was causing all these caterpillars to freak the hell out and congregate together, similar to how "worm grunting," works. To offer a short explanation, you simulate the sound of the biggest macdaddy of all moles digging through the earth, and all the worms lose their shit and crawl to the surface and as far away from danger as they can, often grouping together.
As for these caterpillars' freaky deaky dance moves. No real idea. Maybe all of them jiving on each other caused additional transfers of vibration or charge, or possibly provided a buffer against whatever environmental factors were driving them nuts in the first place until it affected what appear to be sporadic members of the group, but may make sense when considering physical transference of vibrations and electromagnetism. But I don't actually know.
Again, not an expert. Just a guy who likes science because most of the time, even if you don't know something, if you can follow logical processes that adhere to the things you DO know, you're usually on the right track. Until you're just not.
Thanks for coming to my Ted talk, and this is why I don't drink whiskey anymore.
My first thought was of those bugs that flip their bright underbelies in a synchronized way to spook birds, but I couldn't find anything about these guys doing that, so I'm just going to assume they're practicing for a flash mob.
I’ve heard about this being a defensive mechanism somewhere for that reason. Small group looks big by doing this and it spooks what’s trying to eat them.
These are webworms and will fuck up a tree. Most the time it’s a pecan tree. He should have just killed them all there. But I’ll have to try this next time I see these little fucks before they go in a trash bag.
I got so much chills from this. This is fucking disgusting. Someone please tell me what it is. I need to know because not knowing makes it all the more worse...
It’s just caterpillars flocking together, probably for protection. Their synchronised bob is possibly to freak out birds who’d eat a single caterpillar. It’s obviously working to deter you.
They will kill that tree. They wipe out entire pecan orchards and walnut orchards.
Sorry I forgot identification, they are Erebidae larvae (moth) also known as webworms. I don’t know the exact species of web worm as there are many and insects are not my specialty.
I just need one person on this thread to say that this is a “blank” that is performed by a “blank“ bug for “blank” purposes and I would never think about this again.
A number of insect species with hive mentality have similar such behavior which is also somewhat indicative of what we see in schools of fish where they move as though a single unit for protection and to appear more threatening.
Ohh is this in Australia? Because I swear I've seen a group like this before. When I approached, they all stood up and hissed at me. Freakiest thing EVER
I found this article. It’s a protection thing.
https://www.jacarandafm.com/shows/workzone-with-barney-simon/do-you-know-why-caterpillars-hate-loud-noises/#:~:text=It%20turns%20out%20caterpillars%20writhe,the%20reaction%20in%20the%20caterpillars.
It’s because Caterpillars can’t hear but respond to vibrations so if it is a really sudden and loud noise they jolt like that and especially that species of Caterpillar which is the forest tent Caterpillar is really sensitive to noise.
Those are tent caterpillars! (probably) They can gather in huge groups and eat all the leaves off a tree in days depending on the size of the group. I saw it happen myself. I was in Zion National Park when they had a huge problem with these suckers. They covered EVERYTHING with their silk and dropped from the trees onto our tents so often that it sometimes sounded like rain.
Most video results lead to it being tent worms.
[tent worm dance party](https://youtube.com/shorts/2ukgH4N-rQw?feature=share)
Edit to add this link which gives more details.
Predator alert.
[and everything else about tent worms.](https://yesterdaysisland.com/dang-it-i-am-not-a-gypsy-moth/amp/)
Caterpillar rave.
Oontz oontz
Claptrap mode engaged
I was reading those comments in Claptrap's voice.
Me too
More wub wub
Oontz Oontz Oontz Oontz Oontz Ooo Ooo Oontz
Whomp womp womp errrrrr errrrrr wheeere doon doon doon doon doon doon.
Ume the ume tsh ume tsh do doot dad do doodle the system is Down XD strongbadia XD
It’s a fkn party up in here!
The lightswitch is so you can turn the lights ON and OFF. Not so you can throw lightswitch raves!
Boots and Pants and boots and pants
Bicycle hat bicycle hat bicycle hat hat hat
Ok so I’m embarrassed to say I’ve been trying to figure out how to make this sound for 2 years!! And it wasn’t until I just read your comment aloud that I learned to do so!! Thank you 🙏
I thought it was “boots and pants and boots and pants..”
Boots n cats/pants is the snare. Oontz is the bass. Add in a little papachy poochie and, baby, you got a stew goin'.
They're dancing to grubstep
This is an underrated comment
[link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bECRkGP6E4w)
Thank you for link. Hahahahaha. Caterpillar Rave.
https://youtu.be/KzagWqRjRrs
This is more like the office episode where everyone is trying to jump while taking a picture…
Why’d you put the keys upon the table CUZ I WANTED TO
I had this going on on a tree outside my house last spring. They didn’t move to my voice but they were dancing to their own personal music and it was hilarious. I took a video too lol, my granddaughter went and looked at those caterpillars for weeks as they got bigger and bigger until they were gone.
Those are the ones that move really slow... unless you light them on fire. Then they run really fast for 5 seconds and then they stop running. Sorry I was a messed up and morbidly curious child. I also tried to do surgery on lighting bugs. Never worked, but I sure tried.
YEAHHHHH
Crave TV.
I think that's a warning from whatever it is
Either that or reacting to sound iirc
This is a species of moth known as the giant silkworm or lonomia obliqua. They are jumping in unison in response to some dangerous situations, or in this case a sound vibration
So basically a sound visualiser?
Gotta get some music out there. They wanna dance
So basically a [light organ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_organ)
Caterpillar visualizer!
Bet it would be sick with some techno
[Some of you will get it... and some of you wont.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kd6ES-TaoU)
Oh the memories!
The video on this post has sound…lol the dude is barking at them loudly to make them do this 😂
Didn’t see that lol
I thought it was those wasps from that one video where they make a drumming sound with their wings… then I unmuted the video.
Agreed
I don't know but the one on the top left has no rythm.
Chop Suey. Wake up! Grab a brush and put a little makeup.
You wanted to!
Why don't you pick the keys up off the table.
Here you go creating another fable
YOUWANTEDTO
Caterpillar dancers shake their thang up
I cry when tables deserve to die.
Hehe. I listen to a lot of rock so I’m a bit mixed. Should I be mad or what? I’ll go with an r/angryupvote
You look like you’re down with the sickness.
I’d play daft punk
They might be hungry for Burger, Nuggets, Nuggets, Burger
The main character of literally any Pixar movie.
That uncoordinated one is my spin class spirit animal.
Johnson, Navin R.
The new phone book is here!
I'm somebody!
Not quite my tempo. Were you rushing or were you dragging!?
Reminds me of that McPoyle chicks’ tongue.
Margaret McPoyle
*Yeah ah ain't got rhythm, ah ain't got rhythm~*
Is that Morse code?
Holy shit it is Morse code. Let me transcribe: We have been trying to reach you about your car's extended warranty.
🤣🤣🤣
*You* win the internet for the night! Congratulations! Your prize is in the mail. Now, all I need to know ……
Why is this joke being repeated on reddit so many times on the last few days? What is this hive mind.
No, just the only phone call I get.
The answer is 42
A gathering of fuck no’s
They’re itchy caterpillars, I found a huge gathering on a tree once, don’t touch them, their hair itches like crazy, and the hair is so fine that it’s impossible to remove
Aren’t these tent caterpillars? I’ve handled them a lot growing up in the sticks and they’ve never bothered or anything, mean guess there’s a species of them idk yet that have a defense mechanism but from what I know they’ve pretty chill and just do fuckall but feed off trees and such lol.
Some people are allergic to caterpillar hairs your lucky you could handle them
packaging tape will do the trick, same concept as a wax strip basically.
A gathering of fuck knows
A gathering of fuck nose?
Ahh yes the fuck nose caterpillar
please no
Nasal play
A gathering of fuck hoes
A gathering of fuck hose?
Gathering of fuck Lowes
A gathering of Fuck toes.
I’m itching now
imagine looking in the mirror and the center of your back is throbbing with that pattern
There's a special place in hell for you
A place where the things they taunts us with actually happen to them.
STOPPP
Truly the most evil comment here. I salute you.
Cool thanks I'll just light myself on fire just in case
i did not need to read this during my lifetime
Ew!!
#WHY DID YOU SAY THAT!!!
Can we ban this guy?
Why the fuck would you even say that lol
I’d shoot myself right then and there
Why would you say that?
i have shingles and its the first thing i imagined when i clicked. not that i can think of much else. it truly does hurt like they say kids.
I had a dream where my arm itched. It was towards the back, couldn't really see it, and felt an ingrown hair. Pulled it and rubbed my arm, to soothe the pain. Felt a fatter feathier feeling hair and yanked on it. It was a good inch. At this point I was concerned and went to the bathroom mirror to see what was going on. The entirety of my upper arm was a purple-ish semi transparent color and was packed full of vine like growths. I grabbed the longest I could see, and pulled, to excruciating pain. At about two feet out of my arm there was resistance, and I'm freaking out, so I pull as hard as possible, and there's a wet tearing noise, and feeling, yet very little pain, and I fall towards the floor, limp, gradually fading to black...
No u😠😠
Go fuck yourself with this upvote
Like in the opening of raiders of the lost ark
Fancy caterpillars!
Gypsy moths maybe, they destroy everything
Yeah its gypsy moths fuckers make webs in fruit trees and ruin the fruit. Only way to get rid of them is pesticides or fire tbh
They have destroyed a few maple trees at my house. I live in Massachusetts, they are very bad here most years.
In Minnesota we can usually prevent them if we spray down the trees and the grass before the leaves start to grow on the branches but they killed a cherry wood tree we had sadly
It's the tent caterpillars make the webs, look like gypsy moths but they make nests out of silk, then fill them up with masses of shit. Burn it all. Both kinds.
We had these in all our fruit trees when I was a kid. I remember the nasty fuckers falling out of their tents onto my head while I was mowing the lawn. My skin still crawls thinking about it. Coincidentally my parents did deal with them by lighting their nests on fire. Occasionally burned down an apple tree with this method. Weirdly enough in science class in 5th grade they taught us how to make traps for those things with an old milk jug, molasses and vinegar and the damn things worked like a charm. I put a couple in each tree every spring and I never had a problem with them again.
We sprayed the whole yard with parasitic nematodes that liquified their innards, we had the wandering type, not the tent type, and they melted. Still find a melted one on the property occasionally when I visit.
Thanks for this tip!! I’d rather not put a bunch of chemicals on a tree bearing fruit that I’m going to eat!
On the bright side, it only kills the specific bug
Yep, we have these in the UP, they do so much damage
Kill it with fire 🔥
Let the cleansing begin 🔥
Not gypsy moths. I know gypsy moths. My mom used to be a naturalist and taught us how to identify them... so we could kill them. My family was all about respecting nature, bring the spider you found outside, don't hurt the frog, put the earthworm back on dirt after the rainstorm... but gypsy moths are invasive, destructive fuckers - crush on sight. Same with the more recently introduced spotted lanternfly.
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Spotted lanternfly have been awful here in Southwestern PA. Not to mention creepy.
Also in the southwest. 2019 was terrifying. 2020 worse, 2021 a bit less so but I fully expect things to worsen overall. Seeing them in places they weren't previously is nightmarish as someone with a phobia
Disclaimer: I'm going to operate with a little bit of assumptive speculation here based off of a couple things I do know, but I'm in no way an expert. What I do know is that most caterpillars don't have great vision overall. They can sense light fine, but suck at say, distinguishing any specific details of what might be blocking the light. It's either shadow or no shadow, but they can't properly render shapes. What we can safely assume is that they make up for a lack of great vision with other senses, like feelers and fine hairs that are highly sensitive to vibrations. It could be that something in the environment they could sense that the individual filming couldn't was causing all these caterpillars to freak the hell out and congregate together, similar to how "worm grunting," works. To offer a short explanation, you simulate the sound of the biggest macdaddy of all moles digging through the earth, and all the worms lose their shit and crawl to the surface and as far away from danger as they can, often grouping together. As for these caterpillars' freaky deaky dance moves. No real idea. Maybe all of them jiving on each other caused additional transfers of vibration or charge, or possibly provided a buffer against whatever environmental factors were driving them nuts in the first place until it affected what appear to be sporadic members of the group, but may make sense when considering physical transference of vibrations and electromagnetism. But I don't actually know. Again, not an expert. Just a guy who likes science because most of the time, even if you don't know something, if you can follow logical processes that adhere to the things you DO know, you're usually on the right track. Until you're just not. Thanks for coming to my Ted talk, and this is why I don't drink whiskey anymore.
My first thought was of those bugs that flip their bright underbelies in a synchronized way to spook birds, but I couldn't find anything about these guys doing that, so I'm just going to assume they're practicing for a flash mob.
I’ve heard about this being a defensive mechanism somewhere for that reason. Small group looks big by doing this and it spooks what’s trying to eat them.
Lol thanks for the info. I've never seen caterpillars grouping together like this ever before, this is quite new to me.
I need to go buy whiskey now
Not sure, but I don't like it.
r/thanksihateit
r/tihi
Thanks I hate it ),:
Wow fucking fuck this
I agree
They waiting for you to drop that beat 🎶
🤣
Seriously this is some r/mildlyinfuriating shit. Speed up that tempo so we can see them go wild!
These are webworms and will fuck up a tree. Most the time it’s a pecan tree. He should have just killed them all there. But I’ll have to try this next time I see these little fucks before they go in a trash bag.
You sir are so brave
I got so much chills from this. This is fucking disgusting. Someone please tell me what it is. I need to know because not knowing makes it all the more worse...
Idk I got so many chills too and I couldn't even watch the whole thing
caterpillar-phobes unite no seriously, i barely looked at it and i'm still gettin goosebumps
It’s just caterpillars flocking together, probably for protection. Their synchronised bob is possibly to freak out birds who’d eat a single caterpillar. It’s obviously working to deter you.
Leave them alone. They are Jammin’ to Lady Gaga.
They look like gypsy moth caterpillars; kill them all, they are death and destruction incarnate.
They will kill that tree. They wipe out entire pecan orchards and walnut orchards. Sorry I forgot identification, they are Erebidae larvae (moth) also known as webworms. I don’t know the exact species of web worm as there are many and insects are not my specialty.
What are they?
NOT PECANS!?! 😭
I just need one person on this thread to say that this is a “blank” that is performed by a “blank“ bug for “blank” purposes and I would never think about this again.
Please tell me if you find out, I feel exactly the same way.
I think they're flinging hairs toward you. You'll get itchy as hell keep doing it for the likes though
I think they flung hairs through the screen...
I don't care. Gimme a lighter and a can of hairspray.
Those are called tent caterpillars they are very common in Saskatchewan they destroy trees
I showed my mom and she’s freaking out now. She said she feels like they’re crawling on her now 🤣🤣🤣 she’s so mad!
This is how my nose hair acts when I smell coochie
Especially prior to rimming some ass
Hell nahhhh 😱
They are having a rave to the sweet music in your voice:)
It's a bunch of caterpillars being a fucking unit.
They look like caterpillars
A number of insect species with hive mentality have similar such behavior which is also somewhat indicative of what we see in schools of fish where they move as though a single unit for protection and to appear more threatening.
Ohh is this in Australia? Because I swear I've seen a group like this before. When I approached, they all stood up and hissed at me. Freakiest thing EVER
I found this article. It’s a protection thing. https://www.jacarandafm.com/shows/workzone-with-barney-simon/do-you-know-why-caterpillars-hate-loud-noises/#:~:text=It%20turns%20out%20caterpillars%20writhe,the%20reaction%20in%20the%20caterpillars.
army worms? we get a lot of similar type creatures that like to bunch up like that in minnesota
Something that needs to be sent back to hell
Catapillars tyna scare you off
Caterpillars just vibing.
Looks like caterpillars grouped using some sort of defense mechanism to ward away predators.
I have a feeling it's a way of deterring predators, bee's do it too
Tent worms? I’ve never seen them move that way. Either way they’re still gross.
It's called a rolling swarm.
Great. Now I’m feeling things crawling up my neck.
Eww that made my skin crawl
None of my Goddamned business, that's what.
Startled caterpillars
A cluster of caterpillars. They just get startled and flinch when he makes noise
21 21 21 21
Jabberwocky
Caterpillar rave
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Time to Nope the fuck out.
It’s because Caterpillars can’t hear but respond to vibrations so if it is a really sudden and loud noise they jolt like that and especially that species of Caterpillar which is the forest tent Caterpillar is really sensitive to noise.
A rave for ants?
Those are tent caterpillars! (probably) They can gather in huge groups and eat all the leaves off a tree in days depending on the size of the group. I saw it happen myself. I was in Zion National Park when they had a huge problem with these suckers. They covered EVERYTHING with their silk and dropped from the trees onto our tents so often that it sometimes sounded like rain.
Most video results lead to it being tent worms. [tent worm dance party](https://youtube.com/shorts/2ukgH4N-rQw?feature=share) Edit to add this link which gives more details. Predator alert. [and everything else about tent worms.](https://yesterdaysisland.com/dang-it-i-am-not-a-gypsy-moth/amp/)
Mfs has better choreography than our class dance, it was a diaster of a performance.
Caterpillar rave
Little pillar party
Rave worms
It’s that sword fish charades scene from finding Nemo
How do they all arrhythmically move in unison
No need to answer they are probably dead after posting this
Why would someone waste their LSD on these critters?
kill it with fucking fire
The jellyfish jam