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Title: And you complain about love bugs?
Post by: leafman60 on June 14, 2015, 06:25:44 PM

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/swarming-mayflies-cause-motorcycle-crashes-close-pa-bridge/ar-BBl8flG?li=BBgzzfc&ocid=HPDHP

Title: Re: And you complain about love bugs?
Post by: Sasquatch Jim on June 14, 2015, 07:00:32 PM

 Ride with your mouth open and you won't need to stop for dinner.

Title: Re: And you complain about love bugs?
Post by: nunzio on June 14, 2015, 07:26:30 PM

fairly regular occurence in Southern Louisiana when I lived there in the early 70's.

Title: Re: And you complain about love bugs?
Post by: twforeman on June 14, 2015, 08:08:40 PM

I've ridden through a mayfly swarm. It was nasty. Had to stop every 5 miles to clean off my visor. My shoulders were yellow.

Yuck.

Title: Re: And you complain about love bugs?
Post by: lorazepam on June 14, 2015, 08:52:20 PM

I went down in a swarm that were around a street light in a curve near my home when I lived in
Southern Ohio. I didn't get hurt, but I wished I was dead with all that nasty bug guts everywhere. Man that was nasty.

Title: Re: And you complain about love bugs?
Post by: smdl on June 14, 2015, 09:28:22 PM

Don't they know it's June already? 

Title: Re: And you complain about love bugs?
Post by: redrider on June 15, 2015, 05:52:16 AM

June Brides.

Title: Re: And you complain about love bugs?
Post by: bouts on June 15, 2015, 10:22:49 AM

Have ridden through grasshopper infestation on the prairies a while back.  Nowhere near as bad as the story here, but those grasshoppers sure hurt when the hit the shins!!!

Title: Re: And you complain about love bugs?
Post by: pehayes on June 15, 2015, 10:52:53 AM

We once drove our camper van through 75 miles of Mormon Crickets.  Looked like this:

(http://neveryetmelted.com/wp-images/MormonCricket2.jpg)

About the last three miles we came upon a motorcyclist going the opposite way.  Ugh.  The crushed bodies made the roadway very slick.  The bodies and innards splashed up against our hot exhaust and were thence baked.  Spent a fortune at the coin car wash in Elko to try and rid the stink.  I still can't contemplate the biomass.  These were not just on the road, they were marching across the desert on both sides of the road.  For miles as far as one could see.

Patrick Hayes
Fremont CA