Bukit Batok Residents Told To Close Windows & On Fewer Lights As Black Insects Return

If you happen to live at Bukit Batok Avenue 8, my condolences. I cannot begin to imagine the horror you must be going through. The trauma.

I can only send you my regards from… a good distance away. All the way from the East to be precise. If you’re one of the lucky ones who don’t know what I’m talking about, I’m referring to this:

Swarms Of Black Insects Plague Bukit Batok Residents

Horrifying screams can be heard from a distance. The shrill sound of glass breaking.

Ah yes, Halloween is here but this time mother nature decided to bless us with swarms of black insects that have been terrorising residents at Bukit Batok.

Hey, at least this is better than a perv with a good GPA snooping around your toilet cubicles…. I think.

This has apparently been going on for the past few days. The affected blocks were Block 170, 171 and 172.’

Not The First Time It Has Happened

It isn’t a one-off incident either, because a similar incident happened back in 2015.

Similarly, a mystery bug had turned up in the hundreds, possibly thousands at blocks in Bukit Batok Avenue 8.

That said, it is unclear as to whether these are the same species of insects in question.

All I know is, if this were a movie, the 2019 incident would be the sequel and the 2015 incident was the prequel. So buckle the **** up folks, for Return Of The Evil Black Swarm 3.0.

Kidding, let’s hope that this is the last incident.

Town Council’s Advice To Residents

If you’re one of those who are affected, sit tight. You don’t have to move out just yet.

The town council has adviced residents to shut their windows and switch on as few lights as possible.

Jurong-Clementi Town Council said on Thursday that measures similar to those implemented in 2015 have been put in place.

“We are covering the lights at the corridors of the blocks with yellow-tinted paper.”

The town council also mentioned that after doing an inspection on Wednesday evening, the number of treacherous insects has “significantly fallen.”

They have gotten in touch with the National Parks Board and HDB to check for possible breeding sites of the black insects in these areas.

More About The Insects 

According to Lianhe Wanbao, the insects were found on residents’ beds and dining tables. It even flew into their bottles and clung onto human skin, causing itch as they crawled all over residents’ bodies.

Back in 2015, The Straits Times reported that the rice grain-sized insects haunting the three blocks that year were “harmless beetles that didn’t bite.”

Experts said that they had no chewing mouthparts and were called Ataenius australasiae.