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I have a business idea I wanted to run by you guys.
I collect and pin insects, but I'm still pretty new at it.
I live in Utah, and the Mormons celebrate a thing called The Coming of the Gulls, which is when seagulls came and ate up a plague of locusts. It's a big deal to them and part of Utah history, and proof that god loves the Mormons.
I was thinking I could mount and frame Mormon crickets (actually a shieldback katydid) with maybe maps of Utah behind it, or a picture of the temple or whatever. Then sell it to Mormons to put next to their picture of Jesus.
But where the hell do I get a supply of shieldback katydids?
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Mormon cricket. Surprising range in color phases.
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>>2361445
This has got to be one of my favorite /an/ posts of all time.
Aaaaaaand the answer is you don't. They've been extinct since the 1960s. There are only a couple of specimens in museums and private collections.
Why are you looking for shieldback katydids, anyway? Why not actual locusts?
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>>2361459
Meant to add, Mormon crickets (Anabrus simplex) are actually pretty cool...just head out to sagebrush country and scoop them up with a net.
I'm not sure what time of year they are most active, but they do swarm during breeding season, so if you should be able to collects hundreds at a time.
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>>2361459
The California cousin species is, the Mormon cricket's still kickin' around.
>>2361466
I guess I gotta catch'em.
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Here are some articles, anon, that talk about the swarm migrations. Maybe you can pinpoitn some of the locations mentioned, and go there during the swarming season.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/West/06/14/mormon.crickets.reut/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1449662/
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>>2361500
It would be like that movie Twister, but instead of cool tornadoes, I get covered in swarming locusts.
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>>2361445
You should do the world a favor and pin a bunch of gulls
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I need context for these paintings.
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>>2361552
Seagulls are the Utah state bird. That would be a felony.
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>>2361556
>Mormon settlers head out west to Utah to farm, grossly unprepared and near starving
> their crops are beset by a swarm of locusts
> gulls come and do what birds always do when locusts swarm - they follow the swarm and gorge themselves on locusts for days
> the Mormons decide that this is the greatest miracle ever wrought and that god sent the gulls to save them from the locusts
If god had really been watching out for the Mormons, he would have shown up and explained that locusts are a damn good source of protein, as are gulls
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>>2361556
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_of_the_gulls
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