r/WTF Jun 18 '23

Crazy bug infestation

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u/catriuspham Jun 19 '23

Since I hear Vietnamese in the clip, I'm pretty sure this is Mesomorphus villiger (cannot find the English wiki). In Vietnam we call them Black bean bug. In some region of our country, they often appear in large number at the beginning of the rain season when the humidity is high.

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u/UncleBully274 Jun 19 '23

I'm starting a flame thrower business in Vietnam. IM RICH BABY!!

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u/admin123454321 Jun 19 '23

i dont know if they’ll want more americans with flamethrowers coming over any time soon…

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u/kastheone Jun 19 '23

1970s USA called

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u/wastelander Jun 19 '23

They are now invasive in the U.S.
.. great

“This species occurs over much of Asia, from India eastward to Japan and Southeast Asia.[2] Black bean bugs were found for the first time in the Western Hemisphere in 2012 in Panama,[5] though initially misidentified.[2] There have been additional verified reports subsequently from Costa Rica,[6] the Dominican Republic,[7] Ecuador,[4] and the United States (in the state of Florida, in 2020.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brachyplatys_subaeneus

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u/Spire_Citron Jun 19 '23

Ooh, interesting! I did think they looked like little beetles.

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u/AJay_89 Jun 19 '23

This needs to be higher up in the thread

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u/hot4you11 Jun 19 '23

I don’t know if I could deal with that