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[henrylaxen]

I thank my lucky stars that the ICC http://www.icc-cpi.int/Menus/ICC/Home does not regulate BoBo murder, for surely I would be found guilty.

[Sailor]

I thank my lucky stars that the ICC http://www.icc-cpi.int/Menus/ICC/Home does not regulate BoBo murder, for surely I would be found guilty.

Are you sure they are bobos? The ones we have are very tiny. Maybe I don't know what a bobo really looks like.

[artsnob]

Those sure look like killer mosquitos to me,

[barlin]

These have been swarming around my house in the West end for the past two weeks. They are bigger than boo boos. In the morning they are hanging around on the screens, flying only at night.
I would like to know what type of insect they are, anybody know.?? probably a seasonal thing.
Been hearing a lonesome rainbird nightly for a couple of weeks too.

[BillClarke]

Look like what we used to call "Mayflies". Very short-lived insects - they emerged from their larvae (in water), mated, then would land on screens and windows and die - all in about a day.

[giltner68]

Just bobos, it's that time of year, they swarm by the millions and as noted, I have a nice carpet of them on my terraza every morning as there is a night lite that attracts them. Another ten thousand die in the bug zapper, but the odd thing is that I have one of those battery powered, tennis racquet looking, zappers and the first thing I did when I got home with it was to wade into a swarm swinging it back and forth and nada? They're so small I guess they don't make contact, boy was I disappointed - but spiders? - yes, they make contact big time and if the electric shock doesn't kill them, just the sound of the ZAP does.

[Floradude]

Those are NOT Bobo's!
Bobo's are tiny non-descript blobs of flying fluff. You do not see wings, bodies, or much of anything.

[OsoNegro]

Mayflies!

[giltner68]

Is it possible we're calling the same thing a bobo? I was told they were a "fly" and we've always had gillions of them, if they're different, then I've never seen a "bobo" and Lord love a duck, I've got every other kind of bug that creeps, crawls, runs, jumps and flies, why wouldn't I have them also?

[Ajijic Ron]

Mayflies!

We call these guys shad flies back home. I lived on Lake Nipissing in Central Ontario. These smelly things get so thick for 2 weeks each year they actually form a slick on the streets and cause car accidents.

[AlanMexicali]

They are called fish flies were I came from.

[carib]

They are called fish flies were I came from.

I don't know about this bugs, but they are not Bobos. Bobos are much smaller . We don't have Bobos in Brisas de Chapala. I think they stay closer to the lake. No mosquitoes either. We have a few of this, not many, but they are attracted by the light.

[HelperGuy]

One of those in the photo looks like the mayflies we get along the St. Lawrence River on the Canadian side. The rest look like our bobos here; important to note that that photo is very close up, making them look larger than they are, but for perspective check out the tiles they are on. (This is why photographers put a small ruler or a pencil in photos like this.)

[Wildrose]

We call the may flies "fish flies" where I come from too. Thanks for the may fly photo. Ah, summer memories of swarms of fishflies totally covering the windshield! But that bigger green-bodied fly in the OP's picture does not look like a may fly to me. Check out the green body and the way it holds its wings. It looks more like a lacewing.

Those other critters have been forming big mating clouds around our place every evening, and dying in massive numbers overnight. They could be non-biting midges (Chironomidae) which look just like mosquitoes except they don't have scales on their wings or the biting mouthpart. All the dead ones I've been looking at have fuzzy antennae (visible on some in the photo). Midges also have the fuzzy antenna, but so do some male mosquitoes. I have no idea if those itty bitty wings have scales or not. But I don't believe these critters are mosquitoes because they don't sound like mosquitoes and they don't bite us.

[Puddles]

They hatch,mate and die all in 24 hrs??? For their sakes I hope the sex part was good!!

Look like what we used to call "Mayflies". Very short-lived insects - they emerged from their larvae (in water), mated, then would land on screens and windows and die - all in about a day.

[BillClarke]

They hatch,mate and die all in 24 hrs??? For their sakes I hope the sex part was good!!

Figure it's gotta be, right? Good enough that it kills 'em.

[AlanMexicali]

Fishfly

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Fishfly Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Megaloptera Family: Corydalidae Subfamily: Chauliodinae

"Fishflies are the members of the subfamily Chauliodinae, belonging to the megalopteran family Corydalidae. They are most easily distinguished from their closest relatives, dobsonflies, by the jaws (mandibles) and antennae. In contrast to the large (especially in males) jaws of dobsonflies, fishfly mandibles are not particularly large, menacing or obvious, and the males have feathery antennae similar to many large moths. Chauliodes pectinicornis, the "summer fishfly", is a well-known species in North America.
In contrast to mayflies, which are small and live only 24 hours as adults, Fishflies are quite large, eat aquatic plants as well as smallish animals including vertebrates like minnows and tadpoles, and may live up to seven days as adults. Their entire lifespan is several years, but most of this time is spent as larvae.
Along the Upper Mississippi River, and its tributaries, on one evening around June, the newly-hatched fishflies rise to the air by the billions. River towns are afflicted with a night's worth of misery and days' worth of cleanup. Depending upon the wind, they can go many miles inward, or within the Driftless Area, a good 660 feet upward and across."