You can see the whole article over at DenisDutton.

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This week we received a deluge of free books from the Heartland Institute {this or this }. The book is entitled “The Mad, Mad, Made World of Climatism”. SHown above, Drs. Bridger and Clements test the flammability of the book.

You can read lots more over at WattsUpWithThat and InformThePundits.

From FoxNews here:

South Florida residents are being warned to be on the lookout for one of the world’s most destructive invasive species: the giant African land snail, which can grow as big as a rat.

The huge mollusks were first spotted in Florida in 2011, and their numbers are growing. More than 1,000 are being caught each week in Miami-Dade County and more will continue to emerge from hibernation in the coming weeks.

The snails can gnaw through stucco and plastic, and attack “over 500 known species of plants … pretty much anything that’s in their path and green,” said Denise Feiber, a spokeswoman for the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.

In some Caribbean countries, such as Barbados, which are overrun with the creatures, the snails’ shells blow out tires on the highway and turn into hurling projectiles from lawnmower blades, while their slime and excrement coat walls and pavement.

“It becomes a slick mess,” Feiber said

A typical snail can produce about 1,200 eggs a year and the creatures are a particular pest in homes because of their fondness for stucco, devoured for the calcium content they need for their shells.

The snails also carry a parasitic rat lungworm that can cause illness in humans, including a form of meningitis

Snails are hermaphrodites. They have both sex organs, but they do require a mate to procreate. I think you can still trap them with pools of beer, but I don’t know about wasting a 40 of Old English 800 for giant snails- maybe some PBR- which come to think of it, also traps annoying Hipsters. I wonder if Hipsters shrivel when you throw salt on them?

From the DailyMail here:

Billions of cicadas are expected to swarm the East Coast from New England to North Carolina this spring after remaining underground since the 1990s. The Brood II cicadas are expected to appear in large concentrations along the East Coast between mid-April and late May, a ritual nearly two decades in the making.

‘Brood II is a periodic cicada that hatches out every 17 years,’ Craig Gibbs, an entomologist at the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Queens Zoo, told CBS News.

The cicadas go through five stages underground feeding on tree bark and roots before they reappear above the surface.
‘What will happen is the nymphs will come up and they will shed their nymphal skin and they’ll crawl up into the trees and they’ll take about five days to harden and then they’ll start for next four to six weeks calling and looking for mates,’ said Gibbs.
The bugs will begin to arrive throughout several states to breed as the ground warms to 64 degrees and hotter.

And if the noise isn’t bad enough, at the end of their lives, these flying walnuts start dropping out of the sky, landing in your hair, going down your shirt, collecting on awnings by the thousands.

If you like snails, you might like flying slugs.