Dead Bug Season, April 2012

I don't know if these bugs which I think are termites,  are suicidal or what, but it seems as if some Guyana cult leader commanded them to do so enmass.

Take a look at that and tell me if you're not as baffled as I am. It happens every year, all year round, different times , different bugs, for a few days in a row, littering driveways and entrances of complexes everywhere on Penang island.

Closer inspection reveals big bugs and medium bugs, Queen bugs and little bugs that pose a huge headache to food operators while lizards have the choiciest buffets.

Where do they come from? Where is their nesting ground ? Why do they merge and die altogether ? Are they from the same species ?

No idea. Not getting closer nor ever gonna touch one. What you are seeing here is my hastily zoomed in close up.

Their morbid death is both fascinating yet repulsively creeeepy . How many more days of this ,do we have to endure ?

Look, these specimens even passed on in style, displaying their full wingspan before they took their last and final breath . RIP little insects.