The annual arts and community festival Burning Man is under attack by disgusting green bugs and no-one is quite sure where they’ve come from.
‘They’re everywhere,’ the festival’s blog website confirmed. ‘They bite. They crawl all over you. They get up and in you.’
Now that’s a lovely image.
The critters are confounding festival organisers who are hoping the bugs will move on before over 50,000 revellers turn up on site in over a week’s time.
But what’s with the sudden infestation? They have two theories – firstly that the recent rain has led the bugs to hatch earlier than normal and join in the party, or secondly that they hitchhiked in… Read the full story