2011 Flood Bugnado Bugnadoes

A few stills here: http://www.extremeinstability.com/201...
Due in large part to all the flood waters along the Missouri River we have a lot more bugs around. The tree tops, ditches and cornfields now "smoke" with bugs at dusk. One night I found this crazy display of bugnadoes, vortex formations of bugs. The first night I saw them swarms of dragonflies were around, flying through them eating them.

Anyway, I was going to wait to make a video until I went over more times and maybe found even better formations and shows of them. I'm finding it rather hard to top this one particular night. It's easy to find them but hard to find such huge numbers, which made seeing things a lot easier. It's also a small window of time after sunset when they are easiest to see. So the trick is finding where the larger numbers are that particular night and finding an angle and shooting them, before it is simply too dark, which comes fast.

While mosquitoes were nailing me at the time, I don't think these are mosquito swarms. Something else, I think anyway.

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[extremeinstability]

Mental note, edit out tripod comments in the future.

[1iNova]

I like the fire flys in the later shots. Whad did you shoot with?

[extremeinstability]

there were fire flies? It was shot with a canon T2i.

[extremeinstability]

Not sure what kind, not thinking mosquitoes as I was at first(was getting bitten fast). Gnats or mayflies I guess. After many more attempts to get or top that display I've found it's a lot harder to come across such a show than I thought. Easy to find smaller ones at first, but now it seems birds have eaten most of the bugs. Hundreds or thousands flying over the fields now.

[darkshiv]

Wheres a flame thrower when you need it?

[MsBelindaLee]

Where are the bats to balance the number of insects?

[Fvgh12345]

king ramses curse

[LouisianaGatorGirl]

Very interesting. Thanks! Any idea what's causing it?

[Simmy Smith]

I would have jumped in it like no joke

[Durka Vifoxe]

It's Silithus!

[LordLastDay]

Repent! End is nigh! Or possibly not...

[iodtiger2]

bugs will be the only creatures left living because of our overuse of insecticides! How ironic!

[DistractionCascade]

looks like an EF-0 bugnado!

[newipad]

It's even harder riding a motorcycle! I've had to stop and clean my helmet's visor along the roadside so I could see! And they're splattered all over my jacket!

[brittneelol]

I heard you need a tripod.