Not normal. Shouldn’t a dust storm knock them out?Like Burningman wasn’t gross enough.
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Also, images of bats have been circulating on social media.
Burning Man organizers have been in contact with health officials, but they have received no indication as of yet that Burners should be concerned about the unusually high number of flying annoyances at the location.
And did we mention they bite? Well maybe not all of the rumors, but the bugs are real.
“They’re everywhere”, he wrote. The creepy crawlers below might be stink bugs, aptly named because they cast off a strong odor when disturbed. They get up and in you.
He said the bugs are so pervasive that one went up a woman’s t-shirt and settled in her bra, while others weaseled through a welding mask and made a home for themselves around another woman’s eyes.
Note to all those very respectable people still seeking the fiery comfort of an artistic effigy: If you start seeing diseased livestock and thunderstorms of hail and fire, know that the apocalypse is upon us.
The state’s Department of Agriculture is sending a bug expert all the way to the remote Burning Man site to collect samples of the offending critters infiltrating the makeshift city.
“We don’t know”, Curley states in his post. “Or maybe they hitchhiked in on a load of wood”.
‘Or maybe, as Shade postulated out at Man Base, there’s a Johnny Bugseed making the rounds at night, sprinkling them anywhere and everywhere’. Curley said organizers are hoping the problem will resolve itself.
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When I Googled Burning Man, pursuing some detail or another, I discovered that news was breaking about a mysterious bug infestation at the fabled alternative lifestyle event. Goodell claims that Nevada is imposing a 9 percent entertainment tax on Burning Man, threatening long-term sustainability and handicapping revenue.
