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Doesn't that sound like a 'B' movie title? Help!! It's happening here! 
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I swear, there are thousands of june bugs swarming all over the driveway, cars, doors, windows, house, etc, etc. Not to mention the cloud of them buzzing around every available inch of air space in the driveway around our farm light! It's scary out there.........heaven forbid if we needed to get to our cars! 
A person would be covered in june bugs in seconds, they are that bad!!!! Darren had to go down and flip the fuse for the farm light just to try to get them to disappear. Not working yet. I was playing with the flashlight in the window of the door and the dumb insects swarmed said door. So, slowly moved the light around on the glass, and they followed it!!
The worst part is they are also coming down the fireplace, which just happens to be right next to that light outside. Then they squeeze past the doors on the fireplace and get in my house!! I'll be vacuuming dead bugs up forever in the morning 
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Aaaaaackkk! One just dive bombed me here on the computer.......at the other end of the house! I'm going to bed and I'm gonna hide in my bedroom with the lights off. Oh the joys of country living 
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Real Deal BearsWell I know of June Buggies, there like little cars you drive around. Not heard of June Bugs before, they sound terrible
Bears-a-Bruin!Ooooh, yuk! What a horrible thing to happen! I'd hate that....
I've seen those flying ant thingies swarming out of the ground, and it was pretty scary. I was sat on the grass in the park I swear that for half-an-hour the air was filled with them as they all came out of holes in the earth and swarmed upwards - yuk yuk yuk!
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Keep your head down untill they pass.
DoodlebearsYikes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hugs Jane. 
PottersHouse BearsYes, the June bugs are bad this year. They drive me crazy, but my cat, Clarisse, loves them. She doesn't eat them, but she sure loves to chase them.
Back Road BearsOK, I HATE bugs and any discussion about them but TRACY.... your experience horrifies me! I'm glad I didn't read your post before I went to bed last night! I'd have woken up screaming and dancing around on my bed....hubs wouldn't have liked that!!!
Here is a photo of said June Bug.... they are about what an inch, inch and half long, Tracy? I haven't had the priveledge of seeing them up close lately!
Tracy - your story reminds me of a movie about Killer Bees and another about Spiders.... both similar to Alfred Hitchcok's movie The Birds. These creatures getting into people's houses, cars, attacking them and causing destruction and death. So NOT pleasant!
Tracy - you are welcome to come stay with me until they go away! We have deer flies however..... though not in huge masses. Those little suckers just swarm, dive bomb your head and bite HARD!!!!
Tracy - my skin is crawling just thinking of those beetles coming down your chimney, not being able to get to your car and the sound of them bouncing off the screens and windows. Here it's just a plunk now and then. It must sound like a hail storm on your house!
I hope all is peaceful there this morning!
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Newcastle, OntarioTracy,
We had them really bad this year, too, but they are all gone now, thank goodness. I had to get up every morning and sweep them off the porch, there were so many - like a cemetary really. Our one cat that died a couple of years ago, used to love to catch and kill them, but the two lazy sods I have now, don't even bat an eye at them LOL!
hugs,
Brenda
Wild Thyme OriginalsOh ICK! Now, I kinda like beetles... just to look at though... not TOUCH.... but those ones are not very pretty, are they? We get lady bug swarms in late summer/early fall... but they are much prettier!
Kim Basta
Wild Thyme Originals
ToadBriarThis fellow is happy to eat as many junebugs as I can catch for him!
They're full of fat & protein - nature's candy 
He's crunching one up in this picture.
I don't mind the junies much - it's the tiny gnats who fly THROUGH the
window screens & bite me, that I can't stand! 
:crackup: :crackup: :crackup: No need to send out the troops Renae.....although, you could send them here after dark and have them eliminate the June bugs! They will be back (say that with an Arnold Swartzeneiger--sp?--inflection)!! :crackup:
Last year we had this problem for a few days in the summer.......it's just a bit unbelievable there are so many.....not normal at all! It must be something with the weather being just right for massive amounts of june bugs to hatch, breed, whatever they do.
My barn cats normally do like to chase them, but there are soooo many, even the cats are hiding from them. GROSS!! They don't bite, but they will land on you and they feel so gross on your skin. Ewwwww........(we need a totally grossed out smiley for this one!)
Daphne--I'm moving in!! I sure wish I could, but then the june bugs would take over in my absence. Darn it!! :crackup: And it DOES sound like a hail storm .........
I cannot believe how many did manage to get into the house last night. I will be armed with the vacuum hose for quite some time today sucking up all the carcasses. And they will be back tonight!! YUK!! They can sure squeeze through the tiniest cracks .......
And in the fall, we get another swarm of the Asian beetles...or orange lady bugs. They are kind of pretty though, but they do bite! These like to swarm around in the daytime when the sun's out and nice and warm. Makes it hard to do any work outside then. Last year I was painting the stall doors on the barn and getting attacked by them. Lots of them got 'painted' onto the doors and they kept trying to crawl under my clothes and stuff. ICK!!
Wish me luck tonight with the second round in the June bug battle!!
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Tracy
Kim, I will be more than happy to send you a lifetime's supply of June bugs! Your little guy can have a feast......forever!! :crackup: :crackup:
Wild Thyme OriginalsOh Kim! What is your little lizard guy's name!? I love his coloring!
Kim Basta
Wild Thyme Originals
Posts: 3,540BLEAH!!!! You have my sympathies!!! I detest June bugs, but they're inextricably intertwined with memories of being at my grandma's and sitting on the front porch swing at night. Yep, swing away ....and dodge the suckers, and then the gut wrenching crunch, crunch, crunch of the cats as they feasted.
Even Mister's had several 'feasts' with his motor purring away!!! He can have them all as far as I'm concerned yak!!!
Sunnie Bearsoh no! I am NOT happy to hear how many June bugs there are this year. Every year in the summer, they swarm my fig tree. THOUSANDS of them. and hundreds get on each fig and suck them dry. YUCK.
Sonya
Hey gals! I've just discovered cats aren't the only things to eat them......well besides the chickens of course! My big dog, Golly, has been munching away and leaving slingers with beetle parts stuck in them. UGG!! GROSS!!!! :crackup: :crackup:
Brisbane
They look like the christmas beetles (at least thats what I call them) we get here in December. They sometimes come in all different colours though.
ToadBriarLOL thanks for the compliments on Mugwump! He's a Tokay gecko -
he was free in the paper - if I didn't take him he was going to be 'released'
into the MAssachusetts wilderness. But he's awesome. He QUACKS if you
upset him & sings when he's happy. Here is what he sounds like:
http://www.gekkota.com/assets/multimedia/tokaycall.wav
Tracy I DO think that Junebugs never last very long - they'll be gone soon!
I'd be happy to trade our just-woken-up deerflies though.... & the daddylonglegses
who are HUGE this year, with their bodies the size of my pinky fingernail - BLECH
Past Time BearsTooooooo cute! I'd say he was a cross between a baritone and tenor.
