It seems a long time ago that I took this photo. The first year it happened it seemed like it would never end. Hours of these recently hatched and horny as heck bugs trying to mate under my porch light. Because I didn't know what they were, and because I had a bed ridden friend in my care, I decided I should nuke them. I sprayed them like mad, with a spray that lingers in the air and deters newcomers. When I woke in the morning there were thousands of dead bugs, but there was also dead lizards, dead frogs, a dead rat and a dead bird. I killed an eco system. the following year I decided to leave them and they were gone by morning, sans wings (which were really hard to sweep up). The following years I did the same, and this was taken the last year I lived in Thailand. My friend, in the background, now lives in the UK (at the time he lived in Indonesia) as well and when we get together we often smile at the ways our lives have changed.
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Hmm, I think I know people who would say that's a sign of the pending apocalypse but to me it doesn't look a whole lot different than rush hour traffic, only nicer.
Termites! Yes, this occasional event is always a good test to see where the cracks are in the house. The geckos sure love it though - a great feast!
Oh, and by the way this whole movement is all about procreation. Quite an amazing biological process. Only a brief window of time for the termites to madly mate before they die. So, basically, what you've captured is a giant termite orgy.
http://www.animalbehavioronline.com/termitebiology.html
Lana,
I can't believe I wrote mosquitoes. I knew it was termites. Frick. My BRAIN! MY BRAIN!
When does it return?
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