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HORDES

I keep thinking that it is going to end.

But it continues.

We are being visited by hundreds of may flies. In the yard. In the house. They are everywhere.

I do not remember this happening before.

They are in the pool. They are in the spa.

There are so many of them. They are in the air. All of the time.

Wispy little things with spidery legs.

It says that they breed in lakes. I don't know about that.

Swimming pools? With chlorine. And filters?

Maybe the rainy weather this past winter have helped make hidie holes for them

No matter how, they are here.

They only live a short time. Some an hour. Others up to a day.

Their bodies are everywhere too. Carnage. Well, I guess it isn't carnage if they die a natural death. And the bodies deteriorate almost immediately.

We aren't trying to get rid of them. They are almost inconsequential except in their mystery. Even Booker has a tolerant view. If they are going to die soon anyway why not just let them alone.

The first year we were here we had a cricket invasion. Other years there have been other hordes, mostly different types of ants. Termites of course. This is California. We went and eradicated all of those.

But the mayflies can stay, endearing as they are. This years horde is gentle and temporary.

It is just that there are so many of them.

Labels: desert, nature