A new decorating scheme? Only an ephemeral one.
Oh, Stacey, you’ve redecorated! What is that fancy paint finish called…oh…wait…is it…moving? Yes, the fishflies are here, my friends. Forming very large arrays. Hitching rides on hapless runners. Flocking to streetlamps in the night and dying in big smelly heaps. Crunching under your car tires as you drive over their piled up corpses. As bugs go, they’re really rather benign. They don’t bite. They don’t even fly all that much. And they don’t come in the house much – at least not without being noticed. ‘Cause they’re large, you see. The easiest way to remove one is to pick it up by its wings, which are about the size of the pads of your thumb and forefinger, and find it a new location. The only thing really creepy about them, besides their numbers, is they way they all face the same direction on any given surface. Like they’re praying. Or in contact with a great leader. Best not to think about it.
While they often cluster on white or light-colored things, they seem to like the blue house just fine.
A sunlit fishflie on the siding. They come in dark brown, ivory or even green.
They tend to form very large arrays.
This photographer was arrayed in fishflies herself while taking these pictures.
They have lovely long tails.
...and lacy wings (also used as handles).
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