Dead mayflies inches deep on road

The Route 462 bridge over the Susquehanna River between Columbia and Wrightsville has reopened after mayflies forced its closure Saturday night, police said.

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Up and down the Mississippi, the mayfly hatch has been a problem

Last year, the Minnesota Department of Transportation had to call out snowplows to remove the dead mayflies from the highways.

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Mayfly Invasion

Hopper, Hopper, Hopper, Hopper, Hopper, Dropper

National Weather Service

The worst grasshopper infestation in 20 years has become so thick around Albuquerque, N.M., that the airborne bugs are showing up on weather radar.

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Droppers but no Hoppers

After two summers of grasshopper mayhem, Colorado bug scientists, farmers and fishermen are, unexpectedly, hearing only crickets in the tall grasses this year.

Drought, bug spray and the fungus of a cold, wet spring have whittled estimates from as high as 17 grasshoppers per square yard in state test areas the past two years to about 3 per square yard this year, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

The fish, however, abide.

LINK (via: The Denver Post)

Cicadamania

Just in case you can't find that Cicada box you put away 17 years ago.

(via: Dan Blanton)

Carp Love em!

The air will hum with a 7 kHz mating buzz.

(via: Outdoor Life)