A video from Abita Springs, Louisiana, shows a deputy’s nighttime patrol this week interrupted by what appeared to be a storm of invasive flying insects crossing the road.
The clip is now drawing widespread attention online.
What happened?
St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office Deputy Justin Blackwell came across a large termite swarm in the New Orleans metro area and recorded it, according to Fox Weather.
In the footage, the air appears thick with insects lit up by patrol lights, making the roadway look foggy, chaotic, and almost unreal.
His joking estimate was “six billion termites,” though Formosan subterranean termite colonies actually number about one million to four million insects, according to the source story…