Bugs

Today, Paul discovered a very odd situation involving bugs. Very close to the shed was an area about 3 inches in diameter that looked like iron filings. Upon closer inspection, he found that the mass was moving and was actually hundreds and hundreds of very, very small bugs of some sort. By the time I got my camera, the mass had spread out and was crawling along the base of the shed. Each of those bugs is about 1 mm. We have no idea what they are.


Stranger still, a few hours later a dead beetle was in the same location upside down (also unidentified). This was about an inch long. We didn't try to figure out what it was.


We don't know if the two things were related, but it was strange that they both occurred in the same location.