#mormon cricket

[vintagewildlife]

Mormon cricket By: Unknown photographer From: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Animal Life 1961

#mormon cricket #katydid #orthopteran #insect #arthropod #invertebrate #1961 #1960s #The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Animal Life (1961)

[porkbeverage]

And now, a Mormon cricket. Or as they like to be called: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints cricket

#digital art #art #bugs #cricket #Mormon cricket #lds #church of jesus christ of latter day saints

[lemuel-apologist]

Sorry, sorry, I was wheedling about guilt.

@winterknightdragon The Miracle of the Gulls is an event in Mormon history that has been embellished quite a bit as time went on. The basics of the story are: in 1848, Mormon pioneers that had settled in Utah were having trouble with their crops due to the sheer amount of crickets descending on them. As a result, everyone prayed and God sent gulls to eat the crickets, thus saving the crops and His Saints. They even have a statue commemorating it at Temple Square!

Of course, the truth is a little less miraculous. Utah has a fair amount of gulls, not all the remaining crops were actually saved, and a fair amount of crickets remained. It's a story, though.

#it's also where the name mormon cricket comes from #this is one of those things that's on my mind because my cousin's over #i also got to tell him about the skunk ape and some utah-area folklore (like devil's slide)

[sitting-on-me-bum]

It’s an invasion! Yes, Mormon crickets are crawling and hopping through Nevada. The smelly, noisy, voracious insects (one pictured above) earned their name from Mormons in Utah who thought they sounded like crickets, but the insect is actually a type of katydid.

PHOTOGRAPH BY JOEL SARTORE, NAT GEO PHOTO ARK

#joel sartore #photographer #national geographic #mormon crickets #insect #nevada #utah #mormons #katydid #animal #nature

[softichill]

Looking back I don't think I ever really believed in god lmao. I was born mormon sure, and I've been taught about god since before I could read, but like. I never felt ANY of the spiritual stuff all the other members claimed to feel. I only ever really looked forward to the potlucks and gym parties, and even then I'd get annoyed whenever god was brought up because what does god have to do with store-bought cupcakes and Kidz Bop???

#cricket chirping #cult tw #mormonism #I was also a little blasphem lmao I remember I once tried to pray to Pan (the greek guy) #And I thought crop tops and mini skirts were the cutest outfits ever despite being told over and over again that if we want to respect god #We had to cover our shoulders & stomaches and never wear anything that shows our thighs

[not-so-superheroine]

Elder Graham Needs to Come Get His Mormon Cricket Legion 🦗

saw a comment youtube that read “a swarm of mormon crickets is enough to make you wish for a nuclear winter.” and another that read “i’m a latter day saint and we don’t claim them (the mormon crickets)”  then i thought, “no, you need to claim them. come get your legion of crickets, Joshua Graham.” 

#mormon crickets #tumblrstake #fallout new vegas #joshua graham #latter day saints #i also do not claim the crickets thems the crickets that went west #he went rogue on his mission so i just assumed he was an elder #who even knows what mormonism will look like in 2281 #also my sympathies for everyone stuggling with the katydids #none over here but there is the threat of being near florida #like no joke there is malaria and leperosy over there and i have lost all faith in regional public heath systems and gen pop ph education #truly bizarre times like this is how God was doing the Egyptians? smh #how'd we end up there?? oh yeah arrogancehate and greed smh #this is probably a niche ha ha for perhaps only me #but tumblr is also for that

[beechersnope]

omg that's so scary i was expecting like a cricket 💀💀

lmaoooo no i live in a rural desert area so i just get like giant ass scary bugs sometimes. no idea how that got in without me noticing but it's also not the first time it's happened.

#tho tbh i would categorize mormon crickets & jerusalem crickets as scary

[dougielombax]

Ngl, I misread that as “millions of Mormons”.

Somehow.

I HATE Mormon crickets! They’re ghastly creatures! Make me sick!

#personal stuff #dougie rambles #Mormon crickets #mormons #crickets #nasty #nevada #elko

[fnrrfygmschnish]

While I was in a motel this weekend (after plans to camp fell through due to the park's campground randomly being closed for some event... which was not listed on their website's calendar, which showed a complete blank for this weekend... sigh), I drew a bunch of silly things on the free notepad provided with the room.

Some Ninja Turtles, drawn with no reference at all. Was going for how they looked in the oldest toys and video games, with the "blank" white eyes when they had their headbands on and such.

Started as a duck evolving into a goose like a Pokémon... then veered off into weirder territory with a goose-hydra and then... goose version of Biblical angels with the bajillion heads and wings and such.

Was watching a Youtube video and someone used the phrase "wall of emoji." That sounded like a Magic card name, so of course I had to draw it... and come up with actual Magic: The Gathering card stats to go with the image.

Random fact that nobody would ever know if I didn't write it here: the name "Skelemon" originally was the name of a made-up Digimon, who was going to be the villain of a (very short-lived) fanfic I started to write somewhere back around the 1999-2000 range. Of course, the "Skelemon" in that story was not a Rasta-skeleton with dreadlocks, smoking weed and such. He was a skyscraper sized skeleton monster. But the original Skelemon did have the weird "bug fang" jaws on the outside of regular humanoid teeth, which carried over to the new one's design.

Inspired by the name of the hotel I was staying at. This may be the only time you'll see me drawing anything like that. 😂😂

I've drawn "thuggy bugs" like this a few times before (especially the beetle spray-painting), but I think this might be the first appearance of the Pimptipede.

Nasty little hobbitses! For several different versions of "nasty."

And finally, on the blank white cardboardy page at the very end, some of my "literal Mormon crickets" that I've been drawing for over a decade (I want to say my first drawings of them were from 2012, maaaybe late 2011.) Recently I've started drawing them with visible mouths.

#drawings #pen #silly #mormon crickets #bugs #howard johnson #except it's actually a guy named howard and his... johnson #hobbits #nasty little hobbits #skeleton #rasta #magic the gathering #emoji #duck #goose #goose hydra #teenage mutant ninja turtles #tmnt #ninja turtles #turtles #TOITLES

[keystonewarrior]

They say black ice is better than mormon crickets.

I agree.

I don't have to wash black ice guts off my car.

But seriously, when those bugs are all over the road, it feels like driving on a slick surface. Slow down and don't die in such an embarrassing way.

#black ice #mormon crickets #driving US 50

[at-the-end-of-days]

We know that beasts of the earth are supposed to attack according to revelations… these are beasts. But more than that, they lay eggs that hatch every 11 years, so how would one possibly expect a massive swarm?

I think that this could absolutely be a potential plague against humanity. The smell alone. And if they’re able to kill by causing hazardous road conditions?

#christianity #revelations #at the end of days #link #news #crickets #mormon crickets #it sounds incredibly dangerous #it sounds awful #but most of all it sounds horribly stinky

[kahlua01]

Jiminy Crickets!

Austin is currently crawling with crickets. And they are not named Jiminy. They don’t quite have Jiminy’s charm, his staunch set of personal ethics, nor his spiffy wardrobe. Also, thank goodness, so far none of them have stood on top of my shoulder or given me a good lecture. No, these crickets are definitely not Disney material. Jiminy Cricket created by Ward Kimball. Photograph from Walt…

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#Mormon Crickets #Nevada

[loripohlman]

Jiminy Crickets!

Austin is currently crawling with crickets. And they are not named Jiminy. They don’t quite have Jiminy’s charm, his staunch set of personal ethics, nor his spiffy wardrobe. Also, thank goodness, so far none of them have stood on top of my shoulder or given me a good lecture. No, these crickets are definitely not Disney material. Jiminy Cricket created by Ward Kimball. Photograph from Walt…

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#Mormon Crickets #Nevada

[thewitchqueenofharrenhal]

Mormonism is vile, the trad wife aesthetic taking off is extremely dangerous and also vile and yettt it’s Black Nara Smith who is constantly degraded all over social media meanwhile crickets for her older White husband Lucky Smith who actively promotes Mormonism and is also all over social media. Interesting no?

#Nara smith

[froody]

Love Raffles, very much enjoy EW Hornung’s writing style. One thing I do not like is the paragraph upon paragraph descriptions of cricket matches. I mean, at least ACD’s random anti-Mormonism rants were entertaining to me, something I could understand. by jove what the fuck is a wicket

[softichill]

"Your body is a temple" and I am it's god. Bitch

#Cricket chirping #This is abt my own Mormon experience btw #Anywho ''Don't get tattoos don't eat on the day of fasting you'll TAINT yourself ouughgugshhfh'' #What if I want a coolass snake going up my arm!! Or wings on my back!!! #And what if I am hungry and simply forget that it is Fast Sunday. What if I do know and just don't care #Why fast for a god who never responds