[Pic] Perfect opportunity....

[ATGC]

to use a flamethrower.

:x

[afusion]

My God that's horrible..

[i_was_here]

This just seemed appropriate:

[Yusuf M. Veteran]

What the... that's one crazy infestation.

[yeZi]

The first photo looked normal, and then as I scrolled down... :|

It's fascinating... in that sick, gross kinda way.

[notuptome2004]

umm where is this located anyone know cause to me it looks like an abandoned town or something and part of one

[Mathachew Veteran]

Whoa... :x

[perochan]

wat kind of bug is that?

[PNWDweller]

wat kind of bug is that?

The animal is a moth called Bird-cherry Ermine (latin: Yponomeuta evonymella; Swedish: h?ggspinnmal>, where "h?gg" is Swedish for bird cherry, "spinn" is to spin and "mal" is moth, so the name means something like "moth that spins [a web] on bird cherries"). I took the photos a summer day in 2005 in Flogsta/Hamberg, a discrict in Uppsala, which is a city about 60 km north of Stockholm, Sweden. (See Google's map of the area). I don't remember exactly, but I would guess I first saw them in May and perhaps it took a little over a month before all caterpillars were dead or turned into pupas.

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[qdave]

haha awesome! a movie based on that would be sweet :p

bike looks cool..surreal :D

[perochan]

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i used to have silkworms as a pet when i was a kid. :p they shouldn't kill instead hire some man and gather all the silk for clothes or something.

[crazzy88ss]

holy ****ing **** can you imagine walkin in on that?!?

[DELTETHISACCOUNT]

Oh how misleading! I was scrolling and waiting for the flamethrower part!!

[WhoTheF]

Some struggling Hollywood director/producer will make a horror movie basked on this

[Xahid]

what is that horrible place :|

a bug house :o

[afuchi]

How was that even allowed to happen...surely that didn't happen overnight?

We had those little ******* couple of years ago. They are quite cute :D and a bit scary. We had whole town like that one morning. And it's really can happen overnight.

[Berserk87]

we just call em tent caterpillars.

i spotted a couple branches on our trees, and we cut them down and burned them and a couple nests still popped back up.

[XerXis]

you guys would be a lot less disgusted if the last photo showed them all turned into beautiful butterflies :p

(it is however more likely that they turn into ugly mots :p)

[+Majesticmerc MVC]

Are they on me? I feel like they're on me! :|

[Unto Darkness]

Flamethrower? We have to nuke that goddamn place! :|

[_neutrino Veteran]

Burn the Bag Worms Whaahahahahaha.... no but seriously i am not sure killing them is the right thing to do being that they will die in winter on their own. I know that at first its a bit frightening being that they are sort of taking over the area but it is nature for them.

[Axel]

Are they on me? I feel like they're on me! :|

SAME!

That is pretty crazy, especially that it can happen in such short a time. I think it certainly forms a good basis for a cheap cheesy horror movie plot! :D

[i_was_here]

Flamethrower? We have to nuke that goddamn place! :|

Nuke It From Orbit (it's the only way to be sure) :D

[Andrew Lyle Global Moderator]

Wow, that is actually really cool to see. I love how they almost merged the bike into the tree and the ground.

[Fred Derf Veteran]

This was a big year for tent caterpillars around here. They were easy enough to spot in Toronto parks. The weave those types of nests and strip trees bare.