Maine beach: Dead-insect horde stains feet black
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Beach-goers looking to feel the sand between their toes have instead ended up scrubbing away the black stain from millions of dead bugs.
The tiny carcasses littered Wells Beach on the coast of the US state of Maine.
A Maine Geological Survey expert said he hadn t seen anything like it in 35 years. The bugs haven t been identified but some reports say it s a kelp fly.
The otherwise harmless bugs appear to have rolled in on the tide and most now seem to have rolled out the same way.
PORTLAND (WGME) – Insects are causing Maine beachgoers’ feet to turn black. Maine coastal communities work on shark safety rules ahead of summer. State officials started investigating Monday after someone noticed a “black residue” on a local beach in southern Maine. The Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry now says the coloring appears to have been caused by pigment from the bodies of flying insects left on the shore by.
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