Ahri Boy 🏳️⚧️@lemmygrad.ml to traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns@hexbear.net · edit-23 months agoTeenage trans activists release 6,000 crickets on transphobic LGB Alliance conferencetranskidsdeservebetter.orgexternal-linkmessage-square35fedilinkarrow-up1206arrow-down10cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected][email protected][email protected][email protected]
arrow-up1206arrow-down1external-linkTeenage trans activists release 6,000 crickets on transphobic LGB Alliance conferencetranskidsdeservebetter.orgAhri Boy 🏳️⚧️@lemmygrad.ml to traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns@hexbear.net · edit-23 months agomessage-square35fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected][email protected][email protected][email protected]
minus-squareGalaxyBrain [they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·3 months agoThey’re actually the same animal as crickets! Sorta! It’s really strange but when I a big group crickets will become locusts after a generation or so and in smaller groups vice versa.
minus-squarewax_worm_futures [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·3 months agoCrickets are different from grasshoppers, they’re in the same order but different families. Grasshoppers are the ones that turn into locusts. Typically you can buy crickets from the Acheta or Gryllodes genus pretty easily, the ones for this prank probably cost around $70-100.
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minus-squareGalaxyBrain [they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·3 months agoI got crickets and grasshoppers mixed up
minus-squaredoublepepperoni [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-23 months agoIn Finnish, the word “sirkka” is applied to a variety of insects in the order Orthoptera (crickets, grasshoppers, locusts and katydids) “Sirkka” on its own means cricket “Heinäsirkka,” (lit. hay/grass cricket) = grasshopper “Kulkusirkka,” (lit. wandering cricket) = locust On the other hand, we call katydids horse cats
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minus-squaredoublepepperoni [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 months ago The resemblance is uncanny
They’re actually the same animal as crickets! Sorta! It’s really strange but when I a big group crickets will become locusts after a generation or so and in smaller groups vice versa.
Crickets are different from grasshoppers, they’re in the same order but different families. Grasshoppers are the ones that turn into locusts.
Typically you can buy crickets from the Acheta or Gryllodes genus pretty easily, the ones for this prank probably cost around $70-100.
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I got crickets and grasshoppers mixed up
In Finnish, the word “sirkka” is applied to a variety of insects in the order Orthoptera (crickets, grasshoppers, locusts and katydids)
“Sirkka” on its own means cricket
“Heinäsirkka,” (lit. hay/grass cricket) = grasshopper
“Kulkusirkka,” (lit. wandering cricket) = locust
On the other hand, we call katydids horse cats
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The resemblance is uncanny