Crunch – ewww – Yep It’s June again! The short Summer nights are full of flying bird food. June beetles/June bugs are harmless to human and pets; but, that doesn’t make them less creepy crawly. My kitchen window storm is broken sos it is filled with dozens of the little demons come dark. My dog likes to scoop them up on our walk and crunch them down like a potato chip. 

I remember when I was a kid growing up in Spring Lake Park Minnesota, we had a large cement pad in front of our little store (Zabel’s). Above the store entry was a large sodium vapor light operated on a photo cell so once it was dark it was the biggest June bug rave on that cement step you ever saw. Coming home late from my job at the mall was particularly challenging. There was no way to get to the door without stepping on them. You sure didn’t want to spend anytime sitting on the bench enjoying the cool evening breeze with those prehistoric looking killer insects crawling all over.  Sometimes, it was solid black with bugs. I used to wait outside on our picnic table in the dark until my Mom would let me in the back door which had a switch on the light which was usually off. Anything to avoid those bugs. 

Thankfully, they don’t last long. And, now I’ve lived in North Carolina with Cicadas and Centipedes and Millipedes, spiders as big as your palm. Yeah – doesn’t make June bugs any more desirable. Proof I’m not a bird. Eat all you want my feathered friends.