A few years ago in the Mediterranean I observed what initially seemed like an oil spill. Taking a closer look, it turned out to be millions of tiny dead insects. I guess sometimes they do land in the sea?
At the time, I tried to find information about it online, and all I found was an article about it happening on the other side of the Atlantic several years earlier.
There’s a reason most insects have thousands of offspring. Wikipedia states that houseflies have about 5k. Since their population isn’t exponentially exploding, you can assume the chance of reproducing as a fly is something like 1/5000
The text version of the 'airplane with bullet holes' meme lol
The ones that landed here hadn't aimed for or planned to find the rig, they were just in the same physical location and found a space to land.