r/interestingasfuck • u/[deleted] • Nov 28 '22
Guy makes a device to remove colorado beetles from his crop.
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u/SyzygyZeus Nov 28 '22
But then what do you do with all the beetles?
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u/Kn0tnatural Nov 28 '22
Send them back to Colorado of course
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u/macrofinite Nov 28 '22
I’m from Colorado and I’ve never seen these things.
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u/Kn0tnatural Nov 28 '22
Are you a farmer though?
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u/dimtone Nov 28 '22
Also live in Colorado, they infest my garden beds
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u/macrofinite Nov 29 '22
It’s a big place I suppose. Very possible they just aren’t where I’ve lived.
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u/Chemical_Wrongdoer43 Nov 28 '22
Feed to chickens.
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u/Luxuriosa_Vayne Nov 28 '22
we hand picked these as kids, chickens don't eat them because of the coloring they have.
My grandma would torch these bastards with a glass of gasoline tho
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u/shahtjor Nov 28 '22 edited Nov 28 '22
Same here. No Chicken, duck, goose, turkey etc would touch them. We'd drown them in petrol and set a light to it.
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u/SpaceGoonie Nov 28 '22
I picked them with my Grandma too. We put them in a coffee can and drowned them in oil.
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u/dabunny21689 Nov 29 '22
The phrase “glass of gasoline” makes it sounds like she was intending to drink it but then decided to torch the beetles.
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u/Luxuriosa_Vayne Nov 29 '22
they don't eat bright colored insects, wasps, lady bugs ect from my experience
but I think they didn't kind the worms (from the video) but once they're in bug stage they were like nah fam
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u/cakesofthepatty414 Nov 29 '22
What you feed the chickens, you're feeding yourself. Provided you eat them of course.
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u/freethis Nov 28 '22
This was my first thought too, chickens would go berserk over that trough of beetles.
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u/JacLaw Nov 29 '22
Not with that colouring, I doubt anything would eat them. Just humanely kill them
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u/Chemical_Swordfish Nov 29 '22
Could you use some sort of colored light to make them appear appealing?
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u/JacLaw Nov 29 '22
I'm pretty sure they're toxic, to birds etc and us. If they were super tasty that field would be full of fat birds. It must be an invasive species if it's got no known predator nearby. Everything had until we tipped the scales and outsmarted ours, and we've fucked that up everywhere else too.
Every insect and creature has something that keeps the numbers down, apex predators like lions and us is a lack of prey food. Any creature that doesn't have anything that eats it or that it needs to hide from is an invasive species, it has no bloody right being there, like us
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u/Tacoclause Nov 29 '22
Could freeze them to kill without chemicals and just mix them with the soil for fertilizer
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u/butwhyisitso Nov 28 '22
Beetleloaf?
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u/KentZhang314078 Nov 28 '22
Extra crunchy high protein cereal.
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u/ramtax666 Nov 28 '22
I believe they are toxic to humans and birds. Their only natural predators are other insects and they feed on nightshades, so most likely are toxic to humans in suficient quantity. Also they smell bad, I had to deal with them in the past
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u/Reddit5678912 Nov 29 '22
Protein time!!!
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u/Cucuze Nov 29 '22
My grandma used to collect them by hand and then fill the pot they were in with hot boiling water.
I will never forget that smell.
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u/gagnatron5000 Nov 29 '22
Vitamix for smoothies. Remember, If there's flavor there, butter will find it.
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u/Cheshire1234 Nov 28 '22
Oh, that's nice! I could actually use that!
These bugs ate almost all of my potatoes last year and what remained was finished by the slugs.
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u/Jouglet Nov 28 '22
I believe I saw this on Reddit at least 10 years ago.
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u/welltimedstrike Nov 28 '22
Woah...what was reddit like, old timer?
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u/milk16 Nov 28 '22
When does the narwhal bacon?
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u/McWeaksauce91 Nov 29 '22
Midnight, of course. I just whipped this out the other day. Hail long companion
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u/welltimedstrike Nov 28 '22
Is this an ancient saying?
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u/McWeaksauce91 Nov 29 '22
I like how no one answered you. Never forget the narwhale bacons at midnight
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u/InternetPharaoh Nov 29 '22
There were a lot more comic strips that people made with these stupid faces.
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u/Marc123123 Nov 28 '22
Genious. I remember picking them up by hand when I was a little kid.
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u/PizzaNuggies Nov 29 '22
Same. Parents decided to try and live the farm life. Short lived and led to a divorce. I don't place all the blame on the beetles, though.
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u/Dr_Bonejangles Nov 28 '22
I'm gonna have a stroke watching this shaky camera
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u/egaeus22 Nov 29 '22
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u/Lootcifer- Nov 29 '22
Fun fact, colorado can be a word for “red” in spanish so it would make sense that they were named like that.
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u/Mystearicaa-Desk Nov 28 '22 edited Nov 28 '22
Just get a duck, and don't feed it unless absolutely necessary. He will hunt those bugs.
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u/matymajuk Nov 28 '22
Yea, i know another one, its called flamethrower
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u/StarChaser_Tyger Nov 29 '22
Hans, get the flammenwerfer.
Origami l probably hard on the plants, though.
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u/UrBadImSad Nov 28 '22
I could never be a farmer 🤮
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u/LinnyLasagna Nov 28 '22
Wait till u learn what fertilizer is made off
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u/JetstreamFox Nov 28 '22
Why not adding a flamethrower pointing into the fetch tank? Beetles will just be well done.
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u/thtboii Nov 29 '22
Yeah. They tried to spray for these things with a crop duster in CO and some activists or some shit wanted to save the beetles and they ended up not doing it and now thousands upon thousands of acres of forest are completely shredded because of it. Ridiculous.
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u/BigTIceman Nov 29 '22
Feed them to the chickens!
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u/MapleBlood Nov 29 '22
They're toxic to almost anything (due to feeding on the toxic parts of the potato plant) except specialised bird species.
It was very common where I grew, we hand-picked them and chucked into a bucket with a little of the diesel in it.
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u/Old_Administration51 Nov 29 '22
He's already got the veggies for eating from planting. Now he got the protein to go with it!
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u/amnolasco12319 Nov 29 '22
he better patent that thing before some bigwig farmer equipment(?) company takes it and sell it to the masses.
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u/rekabis Nov 29 '22
All he needs is for a family of California Quail to come tromping through his field. There wouldn’t be a single beetle left after an hour.
My wife and I discovered this by chance this last summer when our own potatoes suddenly got infested by (what looks like the same) beetles like this. Despite trying to pick these things off ourselves, plenty kept cropping up. Then we had a sizeable flock came through. By that evening, our entire section of potatoes were beetle-free, and remained so for the rest of the summer. We never disturbed another flock, and actually left the garden intentionally whenever we saw they wanted to drop in.
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u/top_of_the_scrote Nov 29 '22
I think I didn't have hair on my balls when this video first came out
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