By the way, as an aside on bureaucratic silliness on even the small city level, for a good thirty or forty years there were no mayfly hatches at all(at least around here) but people remembered that bugs are drawn to lights-so lakeshore businesses and houses turned out their lights. As I recall, sometime around mid-July the city reached the conclusion that this might be a good idea for the parking lot lights on the city beach…..

We can, I do believe, thank that vile, evil, nasty, invasive, zebra mussel for filtering out enough toxins to bring back a “healthy” lake(how many billions were spent-to utterly no effect- locally to get rid of that beastie?).

The downside, sadly, is that local catfish are no longer hallucinogenic.

Down here some people call them mayflies.

Ever see what the RV’ers have to do while driving on the Alcan down South? Mayflies aren’t so bad compared. They can ruin the fishing though.

I heard that Canada is even worse tho’ – they are really in force up there!

(lol!)