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Summer 2011 Bug Season
What does the summer 2011 Bug Season have in store?As the thermometer slowly starts to rise and the northeast attempts to shake off the lingering effects of an unarguably epic and destructive winter, many people’s thoughts will inevitably begin to shift toward the forthcoming summer –and in turn, what the accompanying insect season has in store.
Is it possible that there could be a direct and potentially dangerous correlation between the harsh and unforgiving nature of winter 2010, and the potential severity of the 2011 summer bug season?
Not to be the bearers of bad news, but based solely on rampant speculation and in the self serving interest of escalating bug zapper sales, we are going to say YES!
We feel very confident in predicting that the historical winter of 2010 will bring about a bug season of apocalyptic proportions. Now bear in mind that while this ascertation is not backed by any assemblance of scientific evidence, it is not necessarily totally devoid of merit either. To understand our theory of harsh winter – prolific insect season linkage you must first consider how bugs spend the winter.
Do you know what bugs do in the winter?Are you sure you do? It’s a common misconception that bugs simply die in the winter and are somehow magically regenerated again each spring. Most bugs and biting insects are indeed alive throughout the duration of any given winter. These enemies of mankind manage to survive the cold temperatures using a variety of nefarious techniques.
Bug Winter Survival Tactic #1 - Overwintering as Nymphs
Sounds disgusting right? Well, it sounds that way because it is. The nymphs of many of the worst types of aggressive insects actually spend the winter living very full lives, congregating under frozen ice in pools of water in streams and ponds. These summer attackers are not just surviving in these evil watery lairs either –they are thriving! Vermin such as the horsefly and the stone fly spend their winters brooding just under the ice’s surface, feeding, breeding, and growing stronger - preparing to attack the human race when the time is just right!
Bug Winter Survival Tactic #2 – Hibernation
Oh yea, believe it or not a larger percentage of insects simply resort to some form of hibernation to make it through the winter. Such perennial offenders such as the wasp are simply hidden away in a warm location, perhaps even your barn or attic, simply waiting for the warmer weather to unleash another season of stinging attacks. The common honeybee is actually even active during the winter (within their hives). Honeybee’s can even create their own heat when the barometer really dips deep by vibrating their wings together in rapid succession. Then as soon as the summer hits they are humming, coming at cha’.
So, now that we have established that most bugs do indeed survive the winter, why might we be suggesting that the Bug Season of 2011 might be one for the record books?
Well, it’s reasonable to assume that bugs, being equally both profoundly evil and eerily sensitive to their surroundings, may have, themselves, been somewhat perturbed by the gravity of the severe winter weather of this past season. Fly nymphs under the ice sensed the presence of foot after foot of snow piling on top of their breeding grounds. Honeybees had to work overtime vibrating their wings to keep warm through the record breaking wind and cold.
Just like the majority of the population of the northeast, these insects are indeed pissed off. It’s been a hell of a winter – and they faced it the same as you did. Historically speaking bugs do not respond well to being pushed around my mother nature, they are inherently short tempered and irrationally reactionary. Therefore it’s quite possible they will strike out this summer with unprecedented rage and vent their frustrations on the human race. Summer 2011 could be a nightmarish bug season on a devastating scale. We are strongly advising all human beings to arm themselves with a bug zapper racket in anticipation of what could be a spring swarming season for the record books.
The mosquitoes are coming, the hornets are coming, the spiders…oh, trust us, they are coming. The bugs are plotting against you as you read this, preparing to punish humanity at large for father winters misdeeds. The only question is, will you be prepared?
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