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The adults live, briefly, for sex, then die. We end up with bushels of them on the bridges over the river. They make the road dangerously slippery, especially for motorcycles.
“They give birth astride a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it’s night once more.” – Pozzo, in Waiting for Godot, by Samuel Beckett. And he wasn’t talking about mayflies.
BasilBruce almost 2 years ago
Mayfly, don’t bother me.
BE THIS GUY almost 2 years ago
Poor guy didn’t even get a chance to spend time with the grandkids.
sirbadger almost 2 years ago
Mayflies can live for up to a year in larval form. They don’t last long once they get their wings.
Alexander the Good Enough almost 2 years ago
The adults live, briefly, for sex, then die. We end up with bushels of them on the bridges over the river. They make the road dangerously slippery, especially for motorcycles.
Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus Premium Member almost 2 years ago
I don’t know how long the mosquitoes live. However always too much.
Sanspareil almost 2 years ago
May he fly to the heavens above!
hariseldon59 almost 2 years ago
Mayfly in June.
carlsonbob almost 2 years ago
Wow! At least a praying mantis gets to have a little fun before he dies!
Gent almost 2 years ago
MAY he rest in peace.
iggyman almost 2 years ago
Agreed, Life is too short!
Procat Premium Member almost 2 years ago
How did pig know he was a male, after all there are females?
Athelind almost 2 years ago
that’s what it feels like
Count Olaf Premium Member almost 2 years ago
Here at lunch, gone before dinner.
steveh64 almost 2 years ago
“They give birth astride a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it’s night once more.” – Pozzo, in Waiting for Godot, by Samuel Beckett. And he wasn’t talking about mayflies.
monya_43 almost 2 years ago
He did not die of old age, it was the crash that killed him.
wirepunchr almost 2 years ago
Sometimes Pig is only half-fast.
Ellis97 almost 2 years ago
Insects only have a few weeks or days too live. You two are lucky to have several years.
Huckleberry Hiroshima Premium Member almost 2 years ago
Ack is from that lame Cathy strip. Don’t use ack.
Steverino Premium Member almost 2 years ago
Well, it can’t be a Mayfly. It’s June.
Ishka Bibel almost 2 years ago
Mayflies live for 2 to 3 years. Mostly underwater.
Zebrastripes almost 2 years ago
Living with the lake at the end of the street, I know OH too well. Swarms.
Goat from PBS almost 2 years ago
Flies have midlife crises? Oof.
NickelAlloy almost 2 years ago
Just wait until you’re 70 or so- you’ll realize that in fact, WE are mayflies.
moonfrogger almost 2 years ago
For us, it’s just hours; for them, it’s a lifetime.
jc almost 2 years ago
Book recommendation— Sex Death and Fly Fishing by John Gierach
Sir Davecelot almost 2 years ago
Time flys when your having fun.
proclusstudent almost 2 years ago
“dead yesterday, unborn tomorrow” Ruby Yacht of Omar Khayam.
zeexenon almost 2 years ago
Mayfly hatch noticed on radars in La Crosse a sign of the season, and warn the populace of possible road conditions like winter’s black ice.
The Fly Hunter almost 2 years ago
It makes for quite the challenge for me.
_lounger_ almost 2 years ago
thanks god pigs don’t fly
rick92040 almost 2 years ago
It sure does. I blinked and I’m 70.
Buoy almost 2 years ago
Midlife crisis? I wonder what the mayfly equivalent of a sports car, hair plugs, and a bimbo is?
mail2jbl almost 2 years ago
The skull and crossbones next to the word “ACK!” has me laughing harder than it should for some reason.
Arghhgarrr Premium Member almost 2 years ago
A mayfly flies
In May or June.
Its life is over
Far too soon.
A day or two
To dance,
To fly—
Hello
Hello
Good-bye
Good-bye
By Douglas Florian
John Jorgensen almost 2 years ago
A mayfly’s life for him.
eddi-TBH almost 2 years ago
They make up for it with a long childhood. Not such a bad bargain.
wildlandwaters almost 2 years ago
…which leads to end of life crisis
Sisyphos almost 2 years ago
Pig’s deadpan humor. No real Mayflies died in the making of this strip; right, Cartoon-Boy?
WCraft almost 2 years ago
They don’t make miniature red corvettes for mayflies when they reach midlife?
larslarson almost 2 years ago
As a retired Entomologist, their jobs are to eat, poop, and reproduce. No glamour. Especially when you get eaten by a trout.
nowsijn 11 months ago
Poor guy