Burning things out of a tree..sounds like a good job.

They call it a Belgian dip.

How did you read the article and still manage to get boobies so quickly?

Using a blowtorch to kill poisonous caterpillars...



That's a Dirty Job.

Thanks subby. Man-eating caterpillars just entered my repertoire of nightmares.

As long as they are careful & don't set any trees on fire, I don't see a problem here. It's better than using a pesticide which would likely kill other insects as well.

"In teams of two people, they will go through the forests and burn the little animals off the trees,"

They should leave the animals. They'll eat all the caterpillars.

/the jungle bunnies will eat all the eggplants?

Wasn't this an X-files episode?

/dnrtfa

Unavailable for comment:

FTA: Previous attempts to rid forests of the caterpillars, which number in the millions thanks to mild weather, have included spraying pesticide using a helicopter and setting traps for the adult moths coated in female hormones.

So that means that a couple of dudes with blow torches was your Plan C? Blow torches? What's Plan D? Ask them to leave?

Troops, somewhere out there is a man who stinks, eating caterpillars in the dark... help him out boys.

lord jtard 2007-05-31 04:01:25 PM
How did you read the article and still manage to get boobies so quickly?

I...don't know. Rather amazed myself.

Call out the Swiss Industrial Spies

/they're so much cooler

They should be using outboard motor starter fluid and those long lighters. You can spray that stuff in the air, wait a sec or two, and toss a match in the air roughly below where you sprayed it, and as long as the match doesn't blow out, you'll have your own personal little fire ball.

/or so I've been told

I've seen a man eating caterpillars....

(doesn't work as well with plural nouns)

I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

Game over, man. Game over.

"Belgian soldiers armed with Lysol and a book of matches deployed into the forests to combat man eating caterpillars"

I thought they were going in to combat a man who was munching on caterpillars, and that the caterpillars had given him terrible gas.

One of the caterpillars victims is shown here.
WARNING: Graphic Image.

b2theory [TotalFark]

In other news, Belgum has an Army?

in other other news, Belgium has a mini platoon.

So are the soldiers going to have to cut the hands off each caterpillar they kill to prove that they expended their ammunition wisely?

It's War with the Chtorr...

Best and most entertaining $30 I ever spent. Those canisters last for-god-damn-ever.

I hope the Belgian Army stands up to the caterpillars better than they did to the Wehrmacht.

says "bring it on, waffle boyeees"

Wait. They went in because a man was eating catipillars? Good for them. Men who eat catipillars should be shot.

Pissed... off.

theteacher
They went in because a man was eating catipillars? Good for them. Men who eat catipillars should be shot.

What do you teach? I'm guessing it's not English.

However I agree with you. Eating bugs is gross.

pluerick


Seconded! This is not going to end well...

Well now, the result of last week's competition when we asked you to find a derogatory term for the Belgians. Well, the response was enormous and we took quite a long time sorting out the winners. There were some very clever entries. Mrs Hatred of Leicester Said 'let's not call them anything, let's just ignore them', and a Mr St John of Huntingdon said he couldn't think of anything more derogatory than "Belgians." But in the end we settled on three choices: number three ... "the Sprouts", sent in by Mrs Vicious of Hastings... very nice ; number two..... "the Phlegms"... from Mrs Childmolester of Worthing; but the winner was undoubtedly from Mrs No-Supper-For-You from Norwood in Lancashire... Miserable Fat Belgian Bastards. Very good - thank you, Carol.

Thaumetopoea processionea



Woe be unto uncharismatic animals.

Can I buy a hyphen or a dash or something that tells me the article is about malevolent insects and not insectivorous males.

Axe is better for thaqt, it's mostly butane

Why the hell would the Belgian government feel threatened by a man eating caterpillars in the forest??? And what the hell kind of tactic that would require Lysol and matches do they plan to use against the guy??? WTF?????

I'm a man eating caterpillar, and I'm getting a great kick....oh crap Soldiers...gotta go....

I think the real question here is what's going to happen to the belgian waffles?

You gotta get those suckers while they're young....

Looks like a job for Longcat to me.

Jeffrey.Rodriguez: Best and most entertaining $30 I ever spent.

Amen brother. One of life's great creations.

A worthy replacement for the spray-can-and-Bic-lighter that kept us entertained in middle school.

/good times
//officer, I know nothing about that

"Procession caterpillars, so-called for the way they march in lines through forests, are covered in long, toxic hairs which cause dermatitis and respiratory problems and account for up to 80 percent of doctor visits in the affected area."

So toxic hairs in the affected area are the problem? Sounds like they need a good waxing.

Does no one else see the potential for a first-person shooter here?

Pro Zack

I've seen a man eating caterpillars....

(doesn't work as well with plural nouns)

Sure it does

/I've seen a man eating sheep.