Off the I-15

There is some new commercial on the radio about the abundance of bugs in the Barstow area right now. It contains a line that goes something like, “It’s hot outside so the bugs want to be inside.” Starting to ring a bell? No. It’s OK; I didn’t pay too much attention to it either.

But now I will.

Sunday night, my roommate and I were grilling burgers — the new specialty ones they have at Stater Bros. like bacon and cheddar cheese, blue cheese, pepper and garlic and jalapeño, have you tried them — and had the back slider open to make running in and out of the house easy.

It also made it easy for bugs to fly in and out of the house. Just as we were about to sit down to eat, a friend pointed out that we had a lot of bugs in our house.

Nothing out of the ordinary, really. We do have our fair share of flies and such, but this was ridiculous. An entire wall was nearly black with this little winged creatures. Save their heads, large black and gray wings hid their entire bodies.

There were so many, we stood there dumbfounded. We did not know how to rid the house of so many bugs. I figured they had just moved in for their duration of their lives and hoped they did not live very long.

Luckily, the bugs died easy. With a few fatal swoops of a broom, most we dead and lying near the baseboard, a scattering of wings everywhere.

So next time that commercial comes on the air, I’m going to listen.

Aaron Aupperlee | city editor

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