Bugs

If the pandemic didn't already seem like enough going on, how about a massive swarm of cicadas we haven't seen in 17 years?
You know those GIANT bugs you learn about in school that live underground and only come out every 17 years? Well, it's been 17 years...

It's not that our two states don't agree that there are insects that should be hated, it's just that we disagree on which creep-crawly should draw the most disdain.

Whenever you get a huge group of 17-year olds together, you just know it's going to be loud. Really loud. It doesn't matter whether they happen to be humans or cicadas.

In the interests of full disclosure, I must tell you that we have an artificial (or phony, as my two brats...I mean wonderful kids) Christmas tree at our house. And, it's things like this that make me glad we do.

Pirate bugs might actually be a good thing having to have around.

I think that may be the first headline I've ever written that actually gave me the creeps. It's not often you can work the words stink, bugs, crawl, and your house into the same sentence unless you're the subject of a TLC series.

This might lead to nightmares. A guy in Loves Park shared a photo or a bee(?) or wasp(?) that made my skin crawl and stomach turn.

These zombie cicadas abdomens are missing. That space is replaced with drug-producing fungal spores. 2020 just got a whole more ridiculous.

Be safe out there QC, and enjoy the Midwestern weather.

There's a new pest making its way into Illinois that will either make you yawn or buy out Deet-free bug spray from every store within a 10-mile radius.