Lesson Learned

Last night Shauen had an evening meeting that lasted several hours. Before he left, knowing I can at times be afraid of the dark, he thoughtfully left a light on in our bedroom for me. I was working on various things downstairs and had no need to go upstairs and did not realize he had left the light on for me. When Shauen did return from his meeting, it was close to 11pm and as he locked up downstairs, I headed upstairs. As I walked into our bedroom to place my phone by the bed, I thought I saw something small move on our bedsheet. I leaned over for a closer look. It was a lake fly, a small bug similar in size to a mosquito, but doesn't bite, is harmless, has a short lifespan and is attracted to light. I noticed there were a couple more on the bed, my eyes were drawn up to our pillows where there seemed to be a good handful. As my eyes continued upward, I was a bit concerned to see a dozen more on the wall above our bed. My eyes continued up the wall to our ceiling and I stumbled back in surprised horror. Here I had been concerned about a few little bugs on our bed, and had missed the hundreds and hundreds of lake flies on our ceiling!! How do you walk into a room and miss that?! We turned the light out, hoping they would be drawn to the security lights outside. Nope! They had settled in for the night and were quite comfy! As I mentioned, they have a short lifespan and would be expected to die throughout the night. This would get rid of them, but who wants to sleep underneath a bunch of bugs that are going to die soon?! We ended up dragging our mattress downstairs, and sure enough, our bedroom floor was covered with dead lake flies the next morning. We couldn't figure out how so many got in, as our windows have screens. We realized that if you don't slide the glass all the way open, there is a gap between the screen and the glass since they are on different tracks. When open all the way, the frames meet, sealing the gap. Well, we learned our lesson and we were thankful that although having so many bugs in your bedroom is kinda gross, it was pretty harmless.  -Krista