Kansas Reporter 'Bugged' by Swarming Cicadas
"It was quite an experience," Katya Leick said.
— -- A Kansas reporter was covering live-fire drills at a military base when she came under fire herself – by a group of cicadas.
KSNT reporter Katya Leick was interrupted by the flying bugs as she attempted to shoot video while standing in a tank. The resulting video shows her flailing at the swarm and using the microphone as a cicada-swatter to keep the bugs away.
Leick — who's been with KSNT for eight months — said she had to keep giving herself pep talks to get through the 10 minutes that “felt like forever.” She could barely get a word out before the cicadas would interrupt once again.
“Every time I tried to start talking, they’d come. I was like, ‘I need to hold it together, come on, I just have to get this done with’,” she told ABC News today.