Yep! And generating a pile that size would melt any system. My son nearly caught an og PS3 on fire duplicating cheese wheels. We calculated it to be about 64,000 at once. It got so hot that the power supply shorted out and burned out the manual switch on the back. I had to unplug it from the wall to turn it off. Lol
They are literally being eaten in the photo by millions of things. They are carrots They will naturally decay and not be wasted. Not to mention how many birds and other wildlife have coke across them at this point.
A link from 2020, immediately disregarded and discarded.
I read the summary. The article literally does not, in any way, make any claims about the population of root flies, nor does it even look into if its on an upwards or downward trend.
I know nothing about farming nor insects, but bullshit on reddit is pissing me off
I will, thanks. Maybe next time actually read your source before saying "definitely a real thing." Took me 30 seconds to ctrl+F the document and confirm it doesn't support the claim at all. So what exactly did you verify?
Bro they gave you a source for their claim, so you could draw your own conclusions. That's crazy polite discourse, and on Reddit? You're just looking to pick a fight.
What claim? that root flies exists? Wow, earthquakes exists too, doesn't mean it suddenly became a huge 2025 problem never dealt with before.
"A source for their claim"
opens PDF
literally completely and utterly irrelevant, not even remotely related
next comment is "bruh i tried helping"
and now suddenly im the bad guy for actually reading the linked "source". Yes I come across as hostile and as a dick, but wtf is up with this "its okay to spread bullshit as long as it comes across friendly" ?
I said specifically that I couldn’t speak to the veracity of a problem with this growing season.
Literally just determining whether the pests in general were even real.
If this is how you treat people trying to help you out, I’d hate to see how you treat oppositional forces.
** Post a link that is completely irrelevant and not even remotely related to the topic. Bank on people not leading the link. When called out, just say "i tried to help :'(" as if this doesnt make us all dumber
I think I would probably grind the crop and ferment it to produce alcohol for fuel or solvent.
It’s a fair amount of work but should provide a decent yield. Carrots are fairly sweet and should ferment well.
The leftover mash could be mixed with compost and spread as fertilizer.
They’ll probably be left to rot in a heap though. Don’t worry though. They are root vegetables and will create uber patches of carrots 🥕 in this spot for years to come.
That's the thing with carrots, the ones you see are the good ones. The rest are sliced up/shreddedor shaped into baby carrots, and I assume animal feed.
Anyone who's lived near farms knows this. It's called capitalism: when the price drops significantly due to oversupply, they destroy part of the harvest so that what's left can drive prices back up. They don't consider it food, but just another commodity.
You'reright but its not actual capitalism. It's what passes for capitalism in democracies, which is just crony socialism.
There is no such thing as free market capitalist agriculture. Not in the Americas and especially not in the EU, where farmers exist purely on the back of state support.
They're little state babies who always have the teet of subsidies and price controls to perpetuate their existence. There is virtually zero incentive to reduce waste or try to have supply actually in sync with market demands, which is difficult in such a variable intense industry.
Also, I'm really upset right now because the first 3 times I saw this I thought it was hotdogs/würsts, not carrots, which was much more fantastically absurd.
This is what happens when we have too much food for our own good. This is happening with potatoes, tomatoes, onions, and a lot of other fruits and vegetables and even food that we physically can’t eat because there’s too much of it.
It’s absolutely fine people, it’s cold outside and this is just temporary storage. It takes a bit of time for the buyer to pick up everything. Same with sugar beets, they just put it there, waiting for a lorry to pick it up.
I don't know the real reason, but my first thought is that this is what wildly distorted farm subsidies lead to. Food gets produced with no regard for actual demand, only to end up wasted. The usual defense is national self-sufficiency, as if the moment subsidies stop, we will instantly forget how to put seeds in the ground and society will collapse the next time we really need that amount of food.
This looks like someone has been messing around with the old Bethesda duplication trick again
Yep! And generating a pile that size would melt any system. My son nearly caught an og PS3 on fire duplicating cheese wheels. We calculated it to be about 64,000 at once. It got so hot that the power supply shorted out and burned out the manual switch on the back. I had to unplug it from the wall to turn it off. Lol
😂😂😂😂😂 that is some serious cheese. Enough to feed the whole of Cyrodiil... by the nine.
We refer to it as the Cheese Mountain Incident.
This made my day. Thanks!
the ps3 had no overheat emergency shutoff???
If it did, it certainly failed. Frame rate dropped to around 15 frames per minute. It got so hot the thermal paste vaporized without a trace.
With only the residue of cheese where the thermal paste once was
You sure you didnt accidentally shout yor toor shul? Happens to the best of us
😂😂😂
Ulfric Stormcloak got so many cabbages in his Palace from me.
Blessings of Akatosh be upon thee, he who gifts a cabbage is a true nobleman. I foresee many sweetrolls in your future kind adventurer.
There's been a problem for carrots with root flies in Denmark this year apparently.
Such a waste!. I hope they get used for animal feed or something at least
They are literally being eaten in the photo by millions of things. They are carrots They will naturally decay and not be wasted. Not to mention how many birds and other wildlife have coke across them at this point.
But imagine being a horse and stumbling across this!
develops colic and dies because no self control or ability to vomit
Or Bugs Bunny!
My former bunny (R. I. P.) only liked the peel of carrots! He loved banana leaves, apples and other fruits, though.
I can't be the only one to imagine a bunch of Magpies doing lines across carrots.
You're not 🤣
yes, but given that they were grown to feed humans, it would be nice if they could be used as feed for livestock that also directly benefits humans
Thats ridiculous lol these are fedding insects and bird and the soil itself. All that directly benefits humans haha
you’re ridiculous
Youre dense
Whatever doesn't get eaten by animals in the area will become compost. Nature always reclaims what is hers.
i feel like this is a made up comment that on a glance sounds legit, but a google shows literally no sources nor a single article about this
https://www2.mst.dk/Udgiv/publications/2020/08/978-87-7038-220-5.pdf
Definitely a real thing. Can’t speak to the particular problems of this growing season however.
A link from 2020, immediately disregarded and discarded.
I read the summary. The article literally does not, in any way, make any claims about the population of root flies, nor does it even look into if its on an upwards or downward trend.
I know nothing about farming nor insects, but bullshit on reddit is pissing me off
I literally just tried to verify if it could be an actual problem. Disregard all you like.
"Disregard all you like".
I will, thanks. Maybe next time actually read your source before saying "definitely a real thing." Took me 30 seconds to ctrl+F the document and confirm it doesn't support the claim at all. So what exactly did you verify?
Bro they gave you a source for their claim, so you could draw your own conclusions. That's crazy polite discourse, and on Reddit? You're just looking to pick a fight.
Wasn’t even my claim! lol
But yeah. “Reddit 2025” moment apparently.
What claim? that root flies exists? Wow, earthquakes exists too, doesn't mean it suddenly became a huge 2025 problem never dealt with before.
"A source for their claim"
literally completely and utterly irrelevant, not even remotely related
and now suddenly im the bad guy for actually reading the linked "source". Yes I come across as hostile and as a dick, but wtf is up with this "its okay to spread bullshit as long as it comes across friendly" ?
reddit moment
I said specifically that I couldn’t speak to the veracity of a problem with this growing season. Literally just determining whether the pests in general were even real.
If this is how you treat people trying to help you out, I’d hate to see how you treat oppositional forces.
Reddit 2025 moment
** Post a link that is completely irrelevant and not even remotely related to the topic. Bank on people not leading the link. When called out, just say "i tried to help :'(" as if this doesnt make us all dumber
Does my link verify the existence of the organism that the other poster might have been referring to or not?
Jump up your own ass so fast you catch fire from the friction.
yall gotta be trolling me now?
when was the existence of an organism ever the point lol?
I challenged "There's been a problem for carrots with root flies in Denmark this year apparently."
and now suddenly the debate is whether a species even exists?
I am saying that I cannot, even with extensive googling, find a single source saying that 2025 is any different from i.e 2021 or any random year
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I think I would probably grind the crop and ferment it to produce alcohol for fuel or solvent.
It’s a fair amount of work but should provide a decent yield. Carrots are fairly sweet and should ferment well.
The leftover mash could be mixed with compost and spread as fertilizer.
They’ll probably be left to rot in a heap though. Don’t worry though. They are root vegetables and will create uber patches of carrots 🥕 in this spot for years to come.
In the past, yes. But 2025 was not considered a "bad" year for root flies.
I hear the root flies are having a banner year.
I remember climbing on a huge pile of those as a kid. The size and shape of some of the carrots was amazing.
That's the thing with carrots, the ones you see are the good ones. The rest are sliced up/shreddedor shaped into baby carrots, and I assume animal feed.
Blasted litterers. Some people just don't seem to carrot all.
Orange you glad it’s not in your backyard though?
Might not be the worst that could happen to you
https://youtu.be/GBSOQC1DLTA?si=4BMF67cXw7nrGkGm
source:
https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisit/comments/1prev47/what_did_i_stumble_upon/
just makes it even more weird tbh, no explanation other than theories and guessing.
The sheer scale is wtf
This is what they do when they have too many. It's not unusual. It's to keep prices consistent
"Keep prices consistent" as in screw everyone else over??
Not everyone else. Everyone full stop....
This only helps stability and infrastructure. I assure you farmers don't like doing this either it's contracted
Wouldnt be surprised tbh, thanks for clarifying
Fvck the industry
Here’s a good plausible explanation from a local of the area:
https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisit/s/xsydlRQFKN
You can even see it in the dark
from space
Bugs finally took the correct turn in Albuquerque
Rudolph, make father Christmas stop here.
Refuelling site for Santa's reindeer tonight.
I bet that smells awesome
All this food in dumps. I'm working and starving. This is hell.
Send me location, please
Looks like someone's been into Farmer Maggot's crops again!
Had the same here right outside my house. Only potatoes.
I went and filled a bunch of sacks and put them in my cellar. Don't know the reason for the dumping, but they taste and seem fine to me.
Gleaning
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gleaners
Its for the reindeers
Anyone who's lived near farms knows this. It's called capitalism: when the price drops significantly due to oversupply, they destroy part of the harvest so that what's left can drive prices back up. They don't consider it food, but just another commodity.
You'reright but its not actual capitalism. It's what passes for capitalism in democracies, which is just crony socialism.
There is no such thing as free market capitalist agriculture. Not in the Americas and especially not in the EU, where farmers exist purely on the back of state support.
They're little state babies who always have the teet of subsidies and price controls to perpetuate their existence. There is virtually zero incentive to reduce waste or try to have supply actually in sync with market demands, which is difficult in such a variable intense industry.
Also, I'm really upset right now because the first 3 times I saw this I thought it was hotdogs/würsts, not carrots, which was much more fantastically absurd.
I really wish it was hotdogs.
It’s for the livestock to eat
This is what happens when we have too much food for our own good. This is happening with potatoes, tomatoes, onions, and a lot of other fruits and vegetables and even food that we physically can’t eat because there’s too much of it.
It’s absolutely fine people, it’s cold outside and this is just temporary storage. It takes a bit of time for the buyer to pick up everything. Same with sugar beets, they just put it there, waiting for a lorry to pick it up.
Idk why people are downvoting you. I am from Poland and heaps of sugar beets were everywhere on the fields recently, lol.
I guess it’s city people who don’t understand how farming works
Bait pile. Someone is a serious fat deer with great eye sight hunter...
I’ve seen this on so many different subs and I don’t know why it’s being posted everywhere. There are versions with fewer pixels.
Why?
Because some people don't seem to carrot all
Carrouselambra!! Led Zeppelin.
Bunny Valley. ..^
Could be contaminated with something such as e-coli.
All we need is 5000 rabbits to finish the carrot mountain.
Rabbit’ s paradise
Where are the green leafy tops?
It happens
Quite literally my horse’s recurring dream right there
The NJ pasta dumper has gone international. That fiend.
Unleash the horses!
Surely that's the wrong colour. If they had been dumped they would be brown.
Free compost and a banquet for the wildlife! 😂
There's something rotten in Denmark.
It's a snowman mass grave.
Thought this was hot dogs the first time I saw it
That's going to smell terrible...
Thought they were hot dogs
Greenland is now storing their carrots in Denmark so the US doesn’t steal them.
I don't know the real reason, but my first thought is that this is what wildly distorted farm subsidies lead to. Food gets produced with no regard for actual demand, only to end up wasted. The usual defense is national self-sufficiency, as if the moment subsidies stop, we will instantly forget how to put seeds in the ground and society will collapse the next time we really need that amount of food.
Perhaps you should go outside every now and then, get some fresh air.
"Herp derp I have nothing of value to contribute to the conversation so I just talk about the person who made the comment."
It's used to feed animals. Pretty normal.
Ok