Aghhhhh....... We were swamped! Got home around 630pm last night. Opened all the windows, turned on the lights to unpack. Not even 5 minutes, the entire living room was swamped with flying termites! Yikes. I couldn't kill them fast enough. As soon as I turned off the light, no activity; turned the light back on, they flew around the light in groups... By my estimate, there were a over 30 flying around frantically. So after a while in the killing field, we decided to burn some incents and sealed the living room. We left for supper. By the time we came back, with vacuum in hands ready to do battle with foreign invaders, they were gone! Gone! The only sigh we were being visited by these insects were the debris of body parts on the floor. Weird.... Seemed like we just came out of a parallel universe. We were worry it was the aging apartment. But...
Read tonight's Chinese newspaper online; apparently with the hot and humid weather as well all the heavy rain, these little insects multiply in the tens of thousands, flying all over our Jing'An district. They occupied ATM machine booths, people's apartment, even Hilton's swimming pool. Lots of residents in PJs (yeah, as if they don't do this during daytime anyway) went to convenient stores for sprays. Some houses were invaded so badly the entire wall was covered. An Alfred Hitchcock movie...
As quickly as they came, they left.... and died... by the next morning.
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