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   margueritem said, 4 months ago

   It’s the sex, they need the sex!
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   Linux0s said, 4 months ago

   Mayflies tend to take things one day at a time.
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   naturally_easy said, 4 months ago

   They don’t live long enough to get out of shape.
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   Night-Gaunt49 said, 4 months ago

   Most of their lives are spent under ground. In some cases for years then a brief mating time above. Cicadas are that way. When they come out and shed their skin they have wings but no mouths.
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   jnik23260 said, 4 months ago

   Ask Frazz!
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   Bruno Zeigerts said, 4 months ago

   @Night-Gaunt49

   So the larvae spend years underground, playing video games and watching TV and gorging on pizza and potato chips … then emerge too fat to fly!
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   naturally_easy said, 4 months ago

   @Bruno Zeigerts

   Like my brother’s kids.
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   emptc12 said, 4 months ago

   Mayflies are wispy little creatures with thin curved bodies that cover the areas around ponds in late spring. The wind blows them around and they get onto everything. They are ephemeral, just our comments are in GoComics.
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   For Ben Franklin’s short work, “The Emphera” see:
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   http://www.bartleby.com/109/1.html
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   finale said, 4 months ago

   Gnats all folks.
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    rnmontgomery said, 4 months ago

    @Night-Gaunt49

    Maylies pupate under water as nymphs, cicades underground, yes – as naiads.
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    Silverback said, 4 months ago

    If mayflies lived longer they’d be ‘june’ bugs.
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    mkahn said, 4 months ago

    Mayflies live their lives like there’s no tomorrow…
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    Veteran said, 4 months ago

    A little hard to get buff under a exoskeleton.
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    Digital Frog said, 4 months ago

    I wonder what mayflies think of soup ’djour?
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    LingeeWhiz said, 4 months ago

    @Silverback

    Haha.
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