All this devastation so some fuckbag could light a car on fire and roll it into a gully.
I’d say we need a new plague, but hell, the last one didn’t work. I welcome the asteroids. I beseech the gamma ray burst. Come on, vacuum decay.
(I don’t actually, I just don’t know what to do, think, or say at this point that can accurately convey my level of disappointment with the average state of humanity)
Charcoal beetles behave at fires the way locusts behave in cornfields, or like humans at a football game: they congregate en masse, they eat a lot, and they find mates. The beetles enter a fire to mate while it’s still burning and once the flames have subsided, females lay eggs under the bark of burned trees. The larvae depend on the woods of freshly-killed trees because they cannot cope with the living tree’s chemical defenses. This after-fire niche provides a no-pressure environment nearly free of predators and defenses.
All this devastation so some fuckbag could light a car on fire and roll it into a gully.
I’d say we need a new plague, but hell, the last one didn’t work. I welcome the asteroids. I beseech the gamma ray burst. Come on, vacuum decay.
(I don’t actually, I just don’t know what to do, think, or say at this point that can accurately convey my level of disappointment with the average state of humanity)
On a more positive note, one party is having a great time:
https://baynature.org/article/fire-chasing-beetles-make-appearance/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanophila_consputa
Wildfires are part of California’s ecosystem, and some critters need 'em to survive.
Damn this is metal!
Tool, aenema comes to mind