I didn't have any close encounters of the insect kind last summer. This summer we seem to have grown a bigger crop and I have gotten rather tired of ingesting them. If I can't hack them up and spit them out I just swallow them. As someone said they are just protein, they are considered delicacies in some cultures, and my dog Luke isn't nicknamed "Flyswatter" for nothing! If you are pushing it and don't need to breath through your mouth, well friend, no offense but you have a bigger nose than I have!! Does anyone make a "mouth screen"?

When I was a young lad I would occasionally bike the 10 miles to a neighboring town to visit their hobby shop. On one of these outings I rode into a swarm of bugs without giving them much thought. It was a big swarm and about halfway through I realized they were bees! At that point I started pedaling for all I was worth to get out of there and I managed to splatter one bee against my glasses. I'd always read that bees are fairly docile while swarming and I guess that is true since once clear of the swarm my only "damage" was the need to clean that bee off my glasses.

Ken