Grilled Grasshoppers

The Annihilation Insectoid Race possessed powerful concealment and reproductive abilities. In the original work, these creatures showed up at the drop of a hat. In order to deal with Old Thanos—the aged Thanos who kept Hulk as a dog— —Silver Surfer had gone so far as to draw in a massive swarm of the Annihilation Insectoid Race to besiege Old Thanos. Although those insects had all been wiped out, no one could truly exterminate them for the time being.