The adults live, briefly, for sex, then die. We end up with bushels of them on the bridges over the river. They make the road dangerously slippery, especially for motorcycles.
“They give birth astride a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it’s night once more.” – Pozzo, in Waiting for Godot, by Samuel Beckett. And he wasn’t talking about mayflies.
BasilBruce 12 months ago
Mayfly, don’t bother me.
BE THIS GUY 12 months ago
Poor guy didn’t even get a chance to spend time with the grandkids.
sirbadger 12 months ago
Mayflies can live for up to a year in larval form. They don’t last long once they get their wings.
Alexander the Good Enough 12 months ago
The adults live, briefly, for sex, then die. We end up with bushels of them on the bridges over the river. They make the road dangerously slippery, especially for motorcycles.
Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus Premium Member 12 months ago
I don’t know how long the mosquitoes live. However always too much.
Sanspareil 12 months ago
May he fly to the heavens above!
hariseldon59 12 months ago
Mayfly in June.
carlsonbob 12 months ago
Wow! At least a praying mantis gets to have a little fun before he dies!
Gent 12 months ago
MAY he rest in peace.
iggyman 12 months ago
Agreed, Life is too short!
Procat Premium Member 12 months ago
How did pig know he was a male, after all there are females?
Athelind 12 months ago
that’s what it feels like
Count Olaf Premium Member 12 months ago
Here at lunch, gone before dinner.
steveh64 12 months ago
“They give birth astride a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it’s night once more.” – Pozzo, in Waiting for Godot, by Samuel Beckett. And he wasn’t talking about mayflies.
monya_43 12 months ago
He did not die of old age, it was the crash that killed him.
wirepunchr 12 months ago
Sometimes Pig is only half-fast.
Ellis97 12 months ago
Insects only have a few weeks or days too live. You two are lucky to have several years.
Huckleberry Hiroshima 12 months ago
Ack is from that lame Cathy strip. Don’t use ack.
Steverino Premium Member 12 months ago
Well, it can’t be a Mayfly. It’s June.
Ishka Bibel 12 months ago
Mayflies live for 2 to 3 years. Mostly underwater.
Zebrastripes 12 months ago
Living with the lake at the end of the street, I know OH too well. Swarms.
Goat from PBS 12 months ago
Flies have midlife crises? Oof.
NickelAlloy 12 months ago
Just wait until you’re 70 or so- you’ll realize that in fact, WE are mayflies.
moonfrogger 12 months ago
For us, it’s just hours; for them, it’s a lifetime.
jc 12 months ago
Book recommendation— Sex Death and Fly Fishing by John Gierach
Sir Davecelot 12 months ago
Time flys when your having fun.
proclusstudent 12 months ago
“dead yesterday, unborn tomorrow” Ruby Yacht of Omar Khayam.
zeexenon 12 months ago
Mayfly hatch noticed on radars in La Crosse a sign of the season, and warn the populace of possible road conditions like winter’s black ice.
The Fly Hunter 12 months ago
It makes for quite the challenge for me.
_lounger_ 12 months ago
thanks god pigs don’t fly
rick92040 12 months ago
It sure does. I blinked and I’m 70.
Buoy 12 months ago
Midlife crisis? I wonder what the mayfly equivalent of a sports car, hair plugs, and a bimbo is?
mail2jbl 12 months ago
The skull and crossbones next to the word “ACK!” has me laughing harder than it should for some reason.
Arghhgarrr Premium Member 12 months ago
A mayfly flies
In May or June.
Its life is over
Far too soon.
A day or two
To dance,
To fly—
Hello
Hello
Good-bye
Good-bye
By Douglas Florian
John Jorgensen 12 months ago
A mayfly’s life for him.
eddi-TBH 12 months ago
They make up for it with a long childhood. Not such a bad bargain.
wildlandwaters 12 months ago
…which leads to end of life crisis
Sisyphos 12 months ago
Pig’s deadpan humor. No real Mayflies died in the making of this strip; right, Cartoon-Boy?
WCraft Premium Member 12 months ago
They don’t make miniature red corvettes for mayflies when they reach midlife?
larslarson 12 months ago
As a retired Entomologist, their jobs are to eat, poop, and reproduce. No glamour. Especially when you get eaten by a trout.
nowsijn 26 days ago
Poor guy