Friday, September 25, 2009

Aphids Wild

What the heck's going on, folks?

Have you ever known bugs so thick that you run from your car to the store as fast as if it were raining?

Bugs so thick that your wife calls you from two miles away asking for you to come pick her up by car to escape them?

Bugs so thick that the guy with the bright yellow shirt looks like he's actually wearing a polka dot shirt?

Bugs so thick that the window screen is meaningless?

The inside of my car window looks like a decal from Lord of the Flies.

Evidently these soybean aphids - all trillion of them, surely enough to fly circles around that teeny Biblical locust swarm - flourish in the warm and mild temps. For the first time I find myself pulling for a cold snap!

1 comment:

freid207 said...

You can pick up a spray called "Viper" at Earlybird in Goodfield...spray it around your windows. Problem solved (for your condo, I mean...not your shirt). We usually have them in droves around our house and they bite...