Had to spit out a grasshopper!

[beccaB]

I had to dislodge a big fuzzy something from the back of my bottom teeth and spit him out. I hope he hadn't been perusing the road kill recently. EEWWWW!

[katluvr]

So is this like a new thread...we have done what "What do you see", "What do you hear" and "What do you smell" on your bike ride.
Is this "What insect have you eaten?"
Here in Florida...we have "love bugs"--those swarming black bugs in May and (oh no) Sept. -ish. They will take the paint right off your car if you don't wash it right away. Anyway...I digress...
Bike thru a swarm/cloud of them one day. I keep my mouth TIGHTLY shut. They were clinging all over me and crawling on my face to under my glasses

[GLC1968]

*shudder*

And love bugs? Their very existence makes me thankful that I didn't pick up cycling until I'd left Florida. They were bad enough in a convertible at a stop light, I can't imagine biking through them! Icky.

[Tuckervill]

We know June bugs as little pinkie nail sized burnt orange beetles that click and clack around the light at night...and die all over the porch in the morning.

What you described made me think of palmetto bugs--cockroach shaped, but much bigger--as big as a quarter--and their wings look glossy and dark brown, like a shell.

But I'm not insect expert. And there are billions more of them than there are us!

Karen