Bug swarm hazard

I got my truck washed in Dallas and was heading up I 30 towards Texarkana, all of a sudden within 10 minutes, my truck went from shiny white to red and black

 

lepton...me too. funny to watch them jump on grills

 

got into a couple of grsshopper swarms. had to stop and clean the winsheild often.

 

Back in the dark ages, when I was a LEO in the Imperial Valley in CA, we had crickets. I mean we HAD CRICKETS! There was one intersection that was a 4 way stop, and it was lighted with a ridiculous amount of street lights. Crickets would be so thick on the pavement, that I've seen cars skid right through the intersection on them. Hey, they tried to stop.
Morning would come, and these things would be 3 feet deep in recessed doorways. Dead crickets STINK, and live crickets eat them.

 

I've seen the Mormon cricket migration in Nevada, it was nasty!
Never seen so many crawly bugs in one place, the road was solid goo for miles and the sagebrush was moving.
It was so bad you could smell the bug guts baking in the sun, yuk!

 

Way to go Wisconsin, and you wonder why the diesel is running hot. I suppose we could do "mayfly burnouts".

 

I was on I90WB near Medical Lake WA a couple of years back at dusk and drove through about 15 miles of suicidal bugs. I'm not sure what type they were and it wasn't technically a swarm but they hit my windshield roughly 5-10 per second for 15 minutes straight. After the first couple of mins I figured out I'd run out of W/W fluid if I didn't keep it to a quick burst every 30 seconds which made for an interesting (read:scary) trip. By the time I made it to the nearest truck stop in Ritzville every forward facing surface of my truck was covered in bug guts.