WHAT THE HELL JUST HAPPENED?

I just wrote something and some magical keystroke combo erased it all.

I'M TRYING TO EXPLAIN HERE! Bugs are everywhere, and now they're tearing apart my words as I write them. This morning in the car there was a mosquito, I smashed it against the window, nearly drove into another car. Mosquitos, man. SARS, West nile, Rabies, Yellow Fever, Chicken Pox, the plague.

Then there are ants in here. But you can read about that.

Then there are locusts that aren't locusts (and this is where I got cut apart before, though I'm not verbatim.) Locusts are like giant grasshoppers, I always thought they were these other things. Cicadas, which I know something of, but about the 17 year kind. So what are they?

WHICH IS WHICH? I've confounded myself. Research must be done. I'm trying to get by on my looks, here. And my hat.