+1 subby

Awesome headline.

Headline love.

/golf clap

I too approve of the headline.

subby: A+++, would LOL again.

Great jorb, subby.

I dunno, that headline makes me antsy. If only it could bee more specific.

Me too, good job.

FTFA: In the latest research one of the insect traps at Rothamsted Agricultural research centre in Harpenden, Hertfordshire contained 283 sycamore aphids in late August compared to 5,290 at the same time last year.

I think I've found the problem.

perfect headline subby!

/ approves

Sublime headline.

+1

love the headline.

Good pun. I likes to see the word play.

But we can't picnic--it's the weekend and therefore raining.

The price we've paid here for mild warm room temperature weather every day of this summer: rain every single weekend.

This rain is called Gustav.

Next weekend's rain is named Ike.

Then we'll get rain called Hanna.

The wind is still called Mariah.

Love it! Made me laugh!

Came to give props to subby, but it looks like that's already under control.

I hereby award you the Golden Cooler! 10+

Hello. I'm about to ruin your day.

Best use of "EVERYBODY PICNIC" in a headline so far.

i see what u did thar

this version of everybody panic has been used, but doesnt change the fact that i lol'd - good work sub

Headline of the year

I submitted a story similar to this with the exact same headline, word for word, three months ago. Didn't make it. Glad today's mod has a better sense of humor.

memphisheel: I submitted a story similar to this with the exact same headline, word for word, three months ago. Didn't make it. Glad today's mod has a better sense of humor.

Too bad there aren't enough ants to eat your sour grapes.

It is obvious that the significant increase in Bigfoot encounters means that their population is growing. Increase the population size of a creature known to have big feet and you are going to have an increase in the number of bugs getting stepped on.

And the oil companies/airlines - more people are driving on vacations because of the high cost of jet fuel - more cars on the highway - more bugs killed on windshields.

Win! +π

Thanks for making me lol in the break room subby...

I didn't read the article... but perhaps we should all panic? Without bugs the earth would fall apart...

I think we should maybe set up some bug breeding programs... work to re-introduce them to areas where the bug population is declining?

/SAVE THE BUGS!!!
//for those that don't get it... I'm kidding.

Awesome, subby.

Truly, the climatologists should listen to the entomologists.

Because it's possible to have a cooling trough during an overall global warming trend.

The problem is, a mini-Ice Age can be exploited by anti-greens to block beneficial environmental legislation.

+1!11!

Subby on "no fly" list trifecta in play

ABQGOD: Headline of the year

THIS

Wanted for questioning.

Hey a green!

Thanks for the props all!

/subby

This is very bad news. =(

Bugs aren't on the decline, they all merely became lovebugs and moved to southeast Texas.

Man they need to come where I live. Whilst I have noticed (and am thankful for) a distinct lack of mosquitoes and flies this summer, there are an inordinately large number of earwigs, beetles and crickets. A strangely high number of skunks this year too, but they aren't insects.

I work for a concrete contractor and this week we were working on a house that needed a new foundation (the house is well over 100 years old and the original foundation was brick which was starting to crumble) and I noticed some spiderwebs with exoskins (or whatever the hell shedded skins are called) of some strange 12 legged spider-like insect. Strange-looking actually. I should've gathered a couple of them so I could take pictures.

My favorite headline in a long time.

I just finished reading Starship Troopers today. Kill 'em all!

Smeggy Smurf: I just finished reading Starship Troopers today. Kill 'em all!

I hope it was better than the movie!

Spitzer wannabe: Smeggy Smurf: I just finished reading Starship Troopers today. Kill 'em all!

I hope it was better than the movie!

The movie was based on about one chapter of the book. The book was excellent. The movie sucked ass.

How come no one has blamed global warming yet?

GOOD.

Get rid of them, then the only obstacle keeping me from partaking in the fine passtime of backpacking--which currently has an unfavorable "disgusting" to "fun" ratio--is the whole shiatting-in-a-bag-and-carrying-it-with-you thing. I am confident that science can address this.

maceinator:
The movie was based on about one chapter of the book. The book was excellent. The movie sucked ass. is hilarious and great


FTFY

whizbang: Truly, the climatologists should listen to the entomologists.

Because it's possible to have a cooling trough during an overall global warming trend.

The problem is, a mini-Ice Age can be exploited by anti-greens to block beneficial environmental legislation.

Ha! Like anyone really knows!

A good story about insect dieoffs that will chill you to the bones is Dust by Charles Pellegrino. He's the man who inspired the dinosaur cloning sequences in Jurassic Park.

Some quotes from the book review at http://www.sfsite.com/05b/dust33.htm:

"This book describes a lot of bizarre and nasty ways to die. Micro-arachnid mites, normally harmless bits of nothing that quietly inhabit every bed and laundry hamper, mutate into a horrible black swarm that eats everything in a Long Island suburb. Caribbean vampire bats, deprived of their usual prey, switch to a hardier species, which happens to be bipedal. Dinoflagellate "red tides" poison the food chain of seaside environments. Crop-eating fungal blooms wipe out agriculture in southern Asia and the American plains. Small communities go "radio silent", and then small countries....

"Governments race to seize any scrap of land they think might be spared the apocalypse, but that becomes irrelevant as organized societies collapse and urban populations die off."

///Sorry to creep you farkers out but it's an ecological principle that if the bottom of the food chain dies out then the next level of life either dies off or decides to eat something else, which whacks the whole system out of balance even more...

Not around here.
It's been the year of spiders.
A couple types I've never seen before.
Fast as hell, and see you coming from way off.
Big mothers too.

fallingcow: GOOD.

Get rid of them, then the only obstacle keeping me from partaking in the fine passtime of backpacking--which currently has an unfavorable "disgusting" to "fun" ratio--is the whole shiatting-in-a-bag-and-carrying-it-with-you thing. I am confident that science can address this.

Carry a small shovel or just go behind a tree. All animals crap in the woods... just make sure you pack out your trash.

Bugs aren't that terrible. Even in the dead of summer, hiking without long sleeves and pants with full sized boots is just asking for a multitude of scratches and stings.

Combat boots FTW! Show me something you think is better and I'll show you something much too expensive for what you want to do.