I knew not fear until this day [Cool Pictures]

[leonid]

Re: I knew not fear until this day (not safe for devonin)

:S

[bmah]

Re: I knew not fear until this day (not safe for devonin)

now replace leonid's duplicating head avatar with a million worms

[darkshark]

Re: I knew not fear until this day (not safe for devonin)

Judging based on behavior, yeah they're silkworms. They obviously aren't trying to cocoon themselves, they don't seem to be trying to catch other insects (they wouldn't be clustered together if they were trying to catch things, too much competition for not enough food) notice how they don't really expand out onto the walls of the building or anything, they keep to the trees and low to the ground because they can eat the vegetation. The silk is just a by-product of their diet.

[AsphyxZero]

Re: I knew not fear until this day (not safe for devonin)

I hope I'm not the only one who thinks this is really amazing.

I have a similar thing happen right on my front lawn, it's covered in webs from funnel spiders, and in the mornings, when it hits dewpoint, all of the webs turn pure white and look similar to this. I love it.

I thought this was amazing as well.
I actually hate bugs, but I'm quite fond of caterpillars. Maybe because that was really the only thing that made selling newspapers on sundays exciting when I was 15-16 years old (for more details, quote this post)

[bmah]

Re: I knew not fear until this day (not safe for devonin)

There's a surprising number of people who are phobic to swarms of any sort, and that's known as effervo phobia (effervo = "swarm"). Combine that with the ubiquitous covering of silky white stuff, and that could be quite disgusting for some people.

[ninjaKIWI]

Re: I knew not fear until this day (not safe for devonin)

I knew what this was the moment I saw the title hahahahaha.

[Ziergdsx18]

Re: I knew not fear until this day (not safe for devonin)

wtf those bikes o.o

[Izzy]

Re: I knew not fear until this day (not safe for devonin)

So.. what are they going to do about it?

[Netjet!]

Re: I knew not fear until this day (not safe for devonin)

That's very cool. I'd say it must be an experiment or something, because no one would let that entire area become encased with silkworms. I've seen these up close by my friend's house, and I can say that it's really cool.

[Bluearrowll]

Re: I knew not fear until this day [Cool Pictures]

I don't know if it's just me, but I found this to be pretty. lol, it looks nice from a distance, with the white tree / bike. But yeah no one is going anywhere on that bike anytime soon.

[foxfire667]

Re: I knew not fear until this day [Cool Pictures]

As far as I'm concerned that was awesome! Seeing them create webbing over an entire bicycle was definitely the best part, not only because it looks pretty cool, but think of how the owner of that bike is gonna feel when they see it like that.

[Aldentron]

Re: I knew not fear until this day (not safe for devonin)

I wonder how long that bike was resting there O_O

This is what I was thinking, what time window was it from the first appearance of the silk worms (this season) till photographs were taken?

[who_cares973]

Re: I knew not fear until this day [Cool Pictures]

looks amazing you guys are just pussies

[Zageron]

Re: I knew not fear until this day [Cool Pictures]

Legit creepy.

[Ickalanda]

Re: I knew not fear until this day [Cool Pictures]

At least they clump up to be easy targets for splash damage weaponry!