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[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Wow I'm glad that it's dry as fuck where I am. Giant insects slamming into your doors sounds horrifying.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

They only get to about half an inch. And they're sort of round, not as gross as a lot of other bugs. But yeah, they just slam themselves into doors and windows. It's noisy and weird.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

they just slam themselves into doors and windows

And your face... they're rather derpy and annoying. I swat 'em with my phone. My dog will eat them out of the air when able, and I'm ok with it

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, I’ve had them fly into my mouth too, most memorably in mid air after jumping off a diving board. So I had to endure the damn thing in my mouth, under water, until I could come up for air/spitting it out.

Still way less annoying than horse and deer flies. Those fuckers really hurt.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

It's more kinda pitiful. They're just really bumbling and clumsy so you'll occasionally just hear a little thunk against a window like a lightly thrown acorn or something hahaha.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Wait till you hear about the cicadas.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

We have them here. I don't mind them cause they just hang out in trees all day and don't bother me.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

they're more existential dread than actively scary i feel, eldrich creatures emerging from the soil on a weird super long schedule only to screech for like a week or whatever it is and then promptly all die off

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