This isn't really great photography or anything, it's more of a Halloween post. You see, swarms of anything gross me out in a creepy, Halloweeny way. Doesn't matter if it's rats or people crawling all over each other, it's stomach-turning. So you can imagine my consternation when, on a winter hike in the Poconos with boyfriend, I came upon an area of snow pocked here and there with holes FULL of swarming insects. These are big holes, about a foot across, and there were at least a dozen of them. That's a lot of bugs. And they were all wriggling and squirming. It's snow, bugs! It should be pristine and pretty. Stop making it gross.
Anyway, Happy Halloween. May your snow be free of weird bug spawns.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_flea
ReplyDeleteNow that I know they're fleas, if I ever see them again, I'm just going to expect them to spring en masse into my face. Thanks for that.
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