Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for June 10, 2023

Mayfly, don’t bother me.

Poor guy didn’t even get a chance to spend time with the grandkids.

Mayflies can live for up to a year in larval form. They don’t last long once they get their wings.

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.

I don’t know how long the mosquitoes live. However always too much.

May he fly to the heavens above!

Mayfly in June.

Wow! At least a praying mantis gets to have a little fun before he dies!

MAY he rest in peace.

Agreed, Life is too short!

How did pig know he was a male, after all there are females?

that’s what it feels like

Here at lunch, gone before dinner.

“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.

He did not die of old age, it was the crash that killed him.

Sometimes Pig is only half-fast.

Insects only have a few weeks or days too live. You two are lucky to have several years.

Ack is from that lame Cathy strip. Don’t use ack.

Well, it can’t be a Mayfly. It’s June.

Mayflies live for 2 to 3 years. Mostly underwater.

Living with the lake at the end of the street, I know OH too well. Swarms.

Flies have midlife crises? Oof.

Just wait until you’re 70 or so- you’ll realize that in fact, WE are mayflies.

For us, it’s just hours; for them, it’s a lifetime.

Book recommendation— Sex Death and Fly Fishing by John Gierach

Time flys when your having fun.

“dead yesterday, unborn tomorrow” Ruby Yacht of Omar Khayam.

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.

It makes for quite the challenge for me.

thanks god pigs don’t fly

It sure does. I blinked and I’m 70.

Midlife crisis? I wonder what the mayfly equivalent of a sports car, hair plugs, and a bimbo is?

The skull and crossbones next to the word “ACK!” has me laughing harder than it should for some reason.

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

A mayfly’s life for him.

They make up for it with a long childhood. Not such a bad bargain.

…which leads to end of life crisis

Pig’s deadpan humor. No real Mayflies died in the making of this strip; right, Cartoon-Boy?

They don’t make miniature red corvettes for mayflies when they reach midlife?

As a retired Entomologist, their jobs are to eat, poop, and reproduce. No glamour. Especially when you get eaten by a trout.

Poor guy