Beerball Posted June 15, 2015 Share Posted June 15, 2015 http://lancasteronline.com/news/local/route-bridge-over-susquehanna-river-open-after-mayflies-forced-closure/article_bf83b83a-1249-11e5-b1c0-63a72464803a.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marv's Neighbor Posted June 17, 2015 Share Posted June 17, 2015 Get them a calendar, it's June! They deserve to die before they can bite someone again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledInIllinois Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 I used to work on the Upper Ms River in Dubuque, Iowa. One time we stayed at a motel by The River. When I woke up in the morning it was like a snow storm, I could barely open my door to the outside, I could have used a snow shovel! Then there is this... In 2013, weather radar actually caught mayflies on the move, like a thunderstom!: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2706029/Caught-radar-Beer-loving-bugs-swarm-Midwest.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mead107 Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 Love bugs are just as bad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledInIllinois Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 Get them a calendar, it's June! They deserve to die before they can bite someone again. Mayflies do NOT bite or sting. Read the article I posted above... They can be so bad that they can cause accidents. They slick up the road when crushed... Just asbad a snow, sometimes 2 feet thick! Thanks to clean water, they have since reestablished themselves since the late 1970's. For a 50 year period they were far and few between. Same here in Illinois with "lightening bugs" or fireflies... You see them all over the place where I live. FWIW, I think it is a sign of good air quality? Or something like that? LMAO! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marv's Neighbor Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 Mayflies do NOT bite or sting. Read the article I posted above... They can be so bad that they can cause accidents. They slick up the road when crushed... Just asbad a snow, sometimes 2 feet thick! Thanks to clean water, they have since reestablished themselves since the late 1970's. For a 50 year period they were far and few between. Same here in Illinois with "lightening bugs" or fireflies... You see them all over the place where I live. FWIW, I think it is a sign of good air quality? Or something like that? LMAO! What we have in Virginia are called "Mayflies," and they do sting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledInIllinois Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 What we have in Virginia are called "Mayflies," and they do sting. Are they these? Fly fishing flies, etc... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayfly They are also called "shadflies." I know that is what they call them out here. Maybe local Virginia name is calling something else a "mayfly." I never knew them to sting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gugny Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 How many flies? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledInIllinois Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 How many flies? It is PA. Two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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