I went to college at Lawrence University in Appleton Wisconsin (good school, by the way). The town is on the Fox River which flows north out of Lake Winnebago toward Green Bay. Every spring, a horde of moth-like river flies rose from the lake and river to do their mating thing. A bio. prof. told us the following interesting bit of natural history. As adults, these flies live only to breed. They do not have functional mouth parts. The last pupal stage before adulthood gorges itself on algae in the lake and river. The algae remains in the gut through the last molting that produces the adults.
The adults are incredibly fragile. Just walking into them (something you can not avoid), much less driving, bicycle riding or flying through a cloud of them, breaks their fragile bodies so that their gut contents (green from the algae) spill out. For a week or so, anything that moves gets "painted" with green speckles. Mark Holm [EMAIL PROTECTED] RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
