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We had a strange encounter last week as were taking the long way around to avoid I-15 through Salt Lake City during rush hour. We ended up on the west side of Utah Lake on a pretty nice 50 mph road, between the lake and hill side, with lots of curves. We were hoping that we would be able to cut east once we past the lake, but much to my wife’s dismay the road kept going south. (We were schedule to be a cookout and were going to be way late.) My short cut added about 2 hours to our journey.
Finally we started getting close to a small town and figured that the east bound road was near. About that time I started to feel something tapping the toe of shoe. I looked down a couple times put there didn’t seem to be anything down there, but it kept happening. All and of a sudden my wife started to screaming about something hitting here legs. Then and only then I noticed that the road had something on it. Grasshoppers! Thousand and thousands of grasshoppers. I would guess that there were any were from 5 to 20 per sq ft. Disgusting! This went on for about 5 miles and they disappeared just about the time we pulled up to the east/west crossroad we were looking for.
We had grasshopper guts everywhere. You would not believe all the pretty colors on the lower cowling behind the front tire. Before leaving town we found a car wash and got most the guts off. I was still finding large pieces of the critters on my bike yesterday when I was checking the tires.
Any other bug or small critter stories?
We had a strange encounter last week as were taking the long way around to avoid I-15 through Salt Lake City during rush hour. We ended up on the west side of Utah Lake on a pretty nice 50 mph road, between the lake and hill side, with lots of curves. We were hoping that we would be able to cut east once we past the lake, but much to my wife’s dismay the road kept going south. (We were schedule to be a cookout and were going to be way late.) My short cut added about 2 hours to our journey.
Finally we started getting close to a small town and figured that the east bound road was near. About that time I started to feel something tapping the toe of shoe. I looked down a couple times put there didn’t seem to be anything down there, but it kept happening. All and of a sudden my wife started to screaming about something hitting here legs. Then and only then I noticed that the road had something on it. Grasshoppers! Thousand and thousands of grasshoppers. I would guess that there were any were from 5 to 20 per sq ft. Disgusting! This went on for about 5 miles and they disappeared just about the time we pulled up to the east/west crossroad we were looking for.
We had grasshopper guts everywhere. You would not believe all the pretty colors on the lower cowling behind the front tire. Before leaving town we found a car wash and got most the guts off. I was still finding large pieces of the critters on my bike yesterday when I was checking the tires.
Any other bug or small critter stories?