I heard one last night. I was letting the dog out before bed and I could hear it… buzzing and bumping and bumbling it’s way along. I thought I might be imagining things, but no. This morning I check social media and others are saying it wasn’t just my ears. Others had actually seen them.
It only took a couple warm days and suddenly they appear. It doesn’t matter if your calendar says May, they don’t care about your calendar. One of the most hated things about late spring/ early summer has arrived… June bugs.
I don’t know why people dislike them so much. Honestly, I kind of feel sorry for them. They don’t fly very well. Whoever designed the June bug was certainly not an aeronautical genius. They seem to have a flight capacity similar to a bumblebee, which, we have been told, was seemingly never meant to fly. Although it somehow does. June bugs do seem to have a slightly better wing span, but they seem to lack control.
Maybe that’s the problem. The lack of control. The little things try to fly to a light source, but somehow manage to bump into every person nearby. Many times. They don’t really do anything to you. Just bump into you. Maybe get stuck in your hair.
And don’t even get me started on the fact my dog seems to find them similar to popcorn. I really don’t care that she eats them. It keeps them from bumping into me. It just makes me a bit queasy to hear that crunching sound.
But it always makes me wonder. Many of us with tolerate black flies… at least for a short while. We have any number of things to attack mosquitoes and try to keep them under control, many of which fail. But one bumbling June bug can clear an area of otherwise normal people in seconds, sending them in a panic to the safety of the great indoors.
I’m not sure why people hate June bugs so much. Like I say, I think it’s the bumping into people and lack of control.
Maybe they should all be required to pass a flight school program before being set free in the world. That might fix it.
