Bugnado!!! RUUUNNNN!!!!!!!

[Gravdigr]

I have never seen this on this scale before. Little ones a few feet tall and literally inches in diameter, yeah, but, not like this.

[Sundae]

Weird o weird.
Yup, I totally get why people used to believe in gods.

Although if'n I met a guy who looked like he had a tripod.... I'd be praying too.

[zippyt]

welcome to the south
the Skeeters from the rice fields would EAT those swarming things for Lunch !!!

[Lola Bunny]

Wow, cool. I've never seen these before. They remind me of those horror/sci-fi movies where demons were gonna form or something.

[Undertoad]

I think they're supposed to form in the shape of an arrow and then sting the arrow into your butt as you're running away.

[Gravdigr]

Oh, they're Sheldon bugs.

[ZenGum]

Freaky and creepy.

Pretty awesome though. I can see it being reported as a UFO.

[infinite monkey]

It's a good year for bugs. I read that mosquito quantities are up, and by extension cases of West Nile Virus.

I was leaving my brother's house a couple weekends ago, it was probably about 10 pm. As I came over the bridge into town, I saw these giant swarming clouds. It was a nice night, and I'd almost put the lid on my car down, but had decided against it. Good thing. The clouds were THOUSANDS (if not millions) of moths swarming around the bridge lights. When I ran into the cloud there was very limited visibility. I had bug guts all over my car.

But I'd never seen anything like it. I wish I had a camera on me, or could take a decent picture with my phone. It was amazing.

[Glinda]

Here's what Cecil Adams has to say:

Why do clouds of gnats always hover around a fixed point in mid-air?

"Dear Cecil:

Can you explain why gnats often gather together in large groups in mid-air, hover around an imaginary fixed point? Even if you wave your hand through a group of them and confuse their sense of locus, they return to regroup around the same point. --Alan D., Chicago

Cecil replies:

As you undoubtedly know, Alan, "gnat" is an imprecise term referring to several species of small flies, most often the fruit flies of the family Trypetidae.

The swarming is part of a mating ritual common to many insect species wherein the males hover en masse and await the females.

It's believed the insects orient themselves over or near some easily recognizable topographical feature--a white object against a field of green, for example, or a tall bush--rather than some "imaginary fixed point."

Their uncanny persistence in doing so may be attributed to the fact that they have to propagate the species (and get in what giggles they can) in an extremely short time--gnats only live for a few weeks.

Keep all this in mind next time you're tempted to spoil some little fly's fun by waving your hand through his orgy. Creep.

--CECIL ADAMS"

Bugorgy!