Are you headed to Black Rock Desert in a couple of days to attend this year's Burning Man? It appears that this year's Burning Man is infested with a plague of biting bugs.
From the official Burning Man blog:
You may have seen the bug rumors on the internet. We are here to tell you that they are all true. Well maybe not all of the rumors, but the bugs are real. They’re everywhere. They bite. They crawl all over you. They get up and in you.
Twin Peaks, who’s leading the construction of the Center Café, was talking about how bad they are when she jumped a little and pulled her t-shirt away from her body. A good-sized green bug fell to the ground. It had crawled into her bra.
Metal Shop Heather wears a welding Mask most of the day. Bugs have crawled up inside her visor and nestled around her eyes. Cammy and Stinger needed some help from the medical team to deal with the infestation; Stinger’s back was covered with nasty red welts from the bites.
And it appears that the bugs are unstoppable.
What’s going on? We don’t know. We don’t know how the little critters survive in the heat and the sun. All we know is that if you pick up some wood, you’re likely to uncover hundreds or thousands of the things.
Photograph taken two nights ago. Black Rock playa. #Bugs #burningman #BRC2015 pic.twitter.com/75sK7MiKXZ
— Bryan Warner (@BryanWarner775) August 19, 2015
Are dead bugs MOOP? Burning questions for @BurningMan 2015 pic.twitter.com/4oSpG7fQAo
— Champagne Lounge (@CLoungebrc) August 18, 2015
Bugs on the playa this year. Not normal.
Shouldn't a dust storm knock them out?
Like Burningman wasn't gross enough. pic.twitter.com/pkLrdUy25q
— khloe morris (@khloestarr) August 18, 2015
Word of warning: Watch out for the bugs at #BurningMan http://t.co/nYN4BkGxIo pic.twitter.com/g8g1xYKn4c
— Re/code (@Recode) August 19, 2015
