What do you call a large group of biters?

[MassiveDynamic]

Ok, so it’s a swarm of bees; a colony of ants; a gaggle of geese, etc. But what is the proper designation for a “mouthful” of biters?

[Squelch]

A Gnaw?

[wobbycarly]

An annoyance of biters?

[Fishy]

The collective noun for cockroaches is an "intrusion".
I think it fits well.

An intrusion of biters.

[boskid]

Unit Group

[FrodoOf9Fingers]

"Watch out for that flock!"
"Watch out for that horde!"
"Watch out for that murder!"
"Watch out for that gaggle.. ??!"

[mmmPI]

gaggle of geese ? why don't we learn that kind of english at school is beyond me. It's sounds funny only to me ? i was interested about the "etc" and also needed to do some research to propose appropriate classification for this alien wildlife . You can find the sources in the spoiler ( a congress of baboons ), but from my observation and this newly acquired vocabulary, i think i would describe some groups as forming some "flocks of biters" , sometimes "colonies" . Definitly "ambush of biters", and "horde of biters" were considered. Also historical sources mention the existence of "fesnyng of biters" but this can only be found in very old text since no-one know how to prononce that word anymore

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An ambush of tigers
An array of hedgehogs
An army of ants/caterpillars/frogs
An ascension of larks
A badling of ducks
A bale of turtles
A ballet of swans
A band of coyotes/gorillas/jays/men
A barrel of monkeys
A barren of mules
A bask of crocodiles
A battery of barracudas
A bazaar of guillemots
A bed of clams/eels/oysters/snakes
A bevy of quail/roebucks/swans
A bloat of hippos
A bouquet of pheasants
A brace of ducks/grouse
A brood of chicks/hens/pheasants
A building of rooks
A bury of conies/rabbits
A business of ferrets/flies
A caravan of camels
A cast of falcons/hawks
A cete of badgers
A chain of bobolinks
A charm of falcons/finches/magpies
A chattering of choughs
A clamor of rooks
A cloud of gnats/bats/grasshoppers
A clowder of cats
A cluster of bees/grasshoppers
A clutch of chicks
A clutter of cats/starlings
A colony of ants/beavers/gulls/penguins/rabbits
A company of parrots/widgeons
A congregation of plover/people
A congress of baboons
A conspiracy of ravens
A convocation of eagles
A cover of coots
A covey of grouse/partridges/pheasants/ptarmigans/quail
A cowardice of curs
A crash of rhinos
A crowd of people
A cry of hounds
A culture of bacteria
A deceit of lapwings
A descent of woodpeckers
A dissimulation of birds
A dole of doves
A down of hares
A doylt of swine
A draught of fish
A dray of squirrels
A drift of swine
A dropping of pigeons
A drove of cattle
A drumming of grouse
A dule of doves
A durante of toucans
An earth of foxes
An exaltation of larks
A fall of woodcocks
A family of otter
A fesnyng of ferrets
A field of racehorses
A flight of birds/butterflies/cormorants/doves/goshawks/swallows
A flink of cows (12+)
A float of crocodiles
A flock of geese/lice/sheep
A fluther of jellyfish
A gaggle of geese
A gam of whales
A gang of buffalo/elk
A gatling of woodpeckers
A generation of vipers
A grist of bees
A gulp of cormorants/magpies
A harras of horses
A herd of buffaloes/curlews/elephants/horse/kangaroo/pigs/wrens
A hide of tigers
A hive of bees
A horde of gnats
A host of sparrows
A hover of trout
A hum of bees
A husk of hares/jackrabbits
An intrigue of kittens
An intrusion of cockroaches
A kennel of dogs
A kettle of hawks
A kindle of kittens
A kine of cows
A knot of snakes/toads
A labour of moles
A lamentation of swans
A leap of hares/leopards
A leash of foxes/greyhounds
A litter of cubs/pigs/puppies
A mask of raccoons
A mob of kangaroos/emus
A murder of crows/magpies
A murmuration of starlings
A muster of peacocks
A mustering of storks
A mutation of thrushes
A mute of hounds
An obstinacy of buffalo
An ostentation of peacocks
A muster of storks
A mute of hounds
A nest of hornets/mice/rabbits/vipers/wasps
A nye/nide of pheasants
A pace of asses
A pack of hounds/rats/wolves
A paddling of ducks
A pair of horses
A pandemonium of parrots
A parade of elephants
A parliament of owls/rooks
A party of jays
A passel/parcel of hogs
A peep of chickens
A piteousness of doves
A pitying of turtledoves
A pladge of wasps
A plague of locusts
A plump of waterfowl/wildfowl
A pod of boar/dolphin/seals/walrus/whales
A pounce of cats
A prattle of parrots
A prickle of hedgehogs/porcupines
A pride of lions
A quiver of cobras
A rafter of turkeys
A rag of colts
A ramuda of horses
A rhumba of rattlesnakes
A richness of martens
A romp of otters
A rookery of penguins
A rout of wolves
A rumpus of baboons
A run of poultry
A rush of pochard
A school of fish/porposes
A scold of jays
A sedge of cranes
A shiver of sharks
A shoal of bass/pilchards/shad
A shrewdness of apes
A siege of cranes/herons
A singular of boars
A skein of geese/pheasants
A skulk of foxes/larks/quail
A sleuth/sloth of bears
A smack/smuth of jellyfish
A sneak of weasels
A sord of mallards
A sounder of wild swine/boars/foxes
A span of mules
A spring of teal
A squabble of seagulls
A stand of flamingo
A stench of skunks
A streak of tigers
A string of ponies/horses
A stud of mares
A swarm of ants/bees/eels
A team of horses/ducks/oxen
A swarm of bees
A thunder of hippos
A tiding of magpies
A tittering of magpies
A tok of capercaillie
A totter/tower of giraffes
A tribe of goats/monkeys/dotterel
A trip of goats
A troop of baboons/monkeys/kangaroos
A turn of turtles
An ubiquity of sparrows
An unkindness of ravens
A volary of birds
A wake of buzzards/vultures
A walk of snipe
A warren of rabbits
A watch of nightingales
A wedge of geese/swans
A wing of plovers
A wisdom of owls
A wisp of snipe
A yoke of oxen

[astroshak]

I once played a game with Alien Loot Economy up and running.

I deliberately left biter nests up and running, within my pollution cloud, to gather the alien ores left behind by biters.

Watching them gather before the assault, they just gathered up into a giant ball. Since that ball always melted to my defenses, I refer to them either as a “biter ball” or a “biter snowball”.

This was towards the end of 0.16 - another of the mods I was using in that game was never updated for 0.17, let alone 0.18.

[Koub]

In French, I'd call it vague (wave) or raz-de-marée (tidal wave/tsunami).
Or a zerg rush, because obvious reasons.

[Optera]

A rush of Biters or a wave of Biters seems appropriate.

[BlueTemplar]

A phalanx, of course !

rare pic of biter phalanx (circa 32 BC, colorized)

[theolderbeholder]

I must admit I am a tad disappointed no one has yet come up with the rather obvious: "target"

[mergele]

I would call it "notable iron and copper expenditure"

[zombieroboninja]

I clicked on this thread expecting a punchline and was disappointed