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Pompano
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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.
[Edited on 12-15-2013 by Pompano]
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Ken Bondy
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Elsa?
carpe diem!
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mulegemichael
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isnt that the taco stand where they had the driveby a few years ago....blasted mom and a kid or so and maybe a customer....really seemed very weird
for a community like el rosario...the black wreath probably is in rememberance!
dyslexia is never having to say you\'re yrros.
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Pompano
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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.)
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mulegemichael
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those COULDNT POSSIBLY be mosquitos!!!????....
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What month???
Mayflies??
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mulegemichael
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aint no stinkin mayflies!...and not blackflies...all i can see is a big sucker snozz and cambered legs...blood suckers...love the north!!
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Pompano
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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.
[Edited on 12-15-2013 by Pompano]
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monoloco
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Looks like grasshoppers to me.
"The future ain't what it used to be"
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Pompano
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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. 
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acadist
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Doesn't the fly bounce on the ice???
Dave
I moved to CO and they made me buy a little rod to make it feel like a real fish
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Some sort of ant? Good luck with the fishing.
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Timo1
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helgermites ???
sold out and got out !!!
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dragonflies?
the black bow is put on businesses when there has been a death... very fine citizens of Mulege, a father & son were also killed there along with
Elsa...never much mention of them...such a tragedy.
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Skipjack Joe
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Are those black flies?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_fly
Could be shoo flies as well.
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durrelllrobert
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Nothing like those in Alberta. Pic must have been taken in Manitoba.
Bob Durrell
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Fish flies - millions of them in Manitoba. Sometimes their bodies are inches deep when the wind has blown them into drifts. The rotting bodies give
off a fishy odor. The shore of Lake Winnipeg is covered with them and it's tough to swim without getting a mouth full.
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Pompano
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| Quote: | Originally posted by 55steve
Fish flies - millions of them in Manitoba. Sometimes their bodies are inches deep when the wind has blown them into drifts. The rotting bodies give
off a fishy odor. The shore of Lake Winnipeg is covered with them and it's tough to swim without getting a mouth full.
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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.
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Skipjack Joe
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Grrrrrr......
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Pompano
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Ken Bondy
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Opps....sorry, Ken about the oversight & delay. You are correcto!
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