May fly hatch on St. Clair picked up on radar

[kickingfrog]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/annual-fish-fly-hatch-on-lake-st-clair-picked-up-on-radar-1.3649661

 

 

'Tis the season for the annual fish fly hatch on Lake St. Clair and Lake Erie.

Every year, thousands of the winged aquatic insects emerge from local bodies of water, only to hover around lights, cling to windows and walls, mate and then die — all within about 48 hours.

This year, the hatch is so abundant, it's being captured every evening on radar in Detroit.

The National Weather Service tweeted a picture of the hatch June 18. The image shows dark blue patches, representing thousands of fish flies, over Lake St. Clair and the western edge of Lake Erie.

[FloatnFly]

it was picked uplast year in ohio as well. insane numbers

[dave524]

I remember being in Port Dover over 50 years ago, couldn't get up the hill going east , slick with mayflies, fire dept came and washed the road .

[MJL]

Going to need a lot of windshield washer fluid driving through that cloud.LOL

[DanD]

I remember being in Port Dover over 50 years ago, couldn't get up the hill going east , slick with mayflies, fire dept came and washed the road .

 

I remember that; it was crazy thick with them.

My dad was a good friend of Bob Stonewall, the original owner of Stony's Hardware in Dover. I can remember standing in his store, looking out one of the big display windows, being terrified of them; thinking they were huge mosquitoes. LOL

I was only 5 or 6 at the time. LOL

 

Dan.

[Sterling]

Are we to expect a large number of them in North Bay as well then?

 

They haven't been bad since ~2004 or so. Back then it was dangerous to drive because roads were slick with mayfly guts (shad flies we call them here).