The rain has begun to fall harder and more frequently. This means that all of a sudden one night we had a mass of flying termites. We remember them from last rainy season. The body is maybe four times then size of an average termite and they have four clear wings similar in look to a dragonfly. They must only hatch after it rains and they disappear after a day.
It was around 7:30 pm in our house. It had been dark for an hour when we heard hundreds of these flying termites trying to get in through our screens and blinds. Houses are not completely bug proof like a winterized house would be so hundreds of flying termites did get in the house.
So here we are after dinner hoping for a relaxing evening. We shut off all of the lights in the house save a small camping solar light. We filled both sides of the kitchen sink with water and placed the light in between so that some of the flying termites would drown in the water. We quickly took ice cold showers and jumped into bed in the safety of our mosquito net at 8 pm. An early bedtime isn't so bad. We are just hoping that the many people that fry and eat these flying termites won't offer us any in the next few days!
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