Do you know what this is?

Do you remember the significance of the black wreath?..or these bugs?....or???

Yes, this is a quiz....about this roadside café in El Rosario.





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Right you are, Mike.

For your prize, here's...


A Photo to make you forget Cold Winter and remember Warm Summer!.....plus another quiz..

Hah...this must be where the singer wrote the song, 'Shoo Fly, Don't Bother Me.."

(can you guess what kind of insects these are? Hint: Canada last summer.)

What month???

Nope...July...and nope. These will crawl all over you...smother you, maybe, but won't bite. They chew.

edit to add...they do eat small animals.

They are most easily distinguished from their closest relatives, dobsonflies, by the jaws (mandibles) and antennae.




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Nope, monoloco....not grasshoppers, either. These are more aquatic insects.



Now I'm off to have a pizza and watch Eastwood's 'Unforgiven' for the fourth or fifth time.

Tomorrow I fly line for some fish...and check this quiz.

Some sort of ant? Good luck with the fishing.

55steve is correct. Fish Fly. (I hinted yesterday...'fly line fishing' today) Steve knows these guys hatch in truly unbelievable numbers. You would not think it possible until you see it with your own eyes. The thick rafts of dead fish flies will clog water pumps on motors.

Chauliodes pectinicornis, the "summer fishfly", is a well-known species in mid-Canada and northern tier states like ND, Minnesota, Wisconsin.

In contrast to mayflies, which are small and live only 24 hours as adults, Fishflies are quite large, eat aquatic plants as well as smallish animals including vertebrates like minnows and tadpoles, and may live up to seven days as adults. Their entire lifespan is several years, but most of this time is spent as larvae.


You need a broom to clean up the bodies...and then dispose of them.

Here's a local newspaper report on a good-sized hatch many years ago: On July 13, 1920, The Telegraph-Herald reported that “the flies were so numerous around the street lights in the business section of the city that before morning (of July 12) the sidewalks were covered with them. Eleven wagon-loads of fish flies were hauled away.”

The following day, “only four wagon-loads were gathered up.”

I know of caribou herds & trout fishermen driven crazy by them and running amuck, but personally can not confirm any human deaths by fish flies...but then, with their voracious appetite would anybody really know?


Congrats, 55steve, here's your prize...we call him Shoo.

Opps again....