On a ride a few weeks ago, my friend and I rode through an area that was just swarming with locusts - it looked like the plague. I was in front and the grasshoppers were flying off the road as I went through, left/right, smacking my legs, sticking in my spokes.... My friend said that I parted them for him so he didn't have it so bad, meanwhile, I had to peel them off my spokes.