In the hole for one, maybe two. Deer Creek, Iowa Summer 2015. On this day, shortly after this photo was taken, the mayfly swarms were so thick we had to stop working because I couldn’t talk on the radio without flies going in my mouth. To give it perspective - a sunny day was turned into overcast for about 15 minutes by a massive swarm of mayflies. Eventually, they died off and we were able to go back to work. It was in the high 90s that day, and the rent-a-wreck widebody motor we had on the point didn’t have AC, so it was a windows open kind of run. As we were pulling out of Deer Creek, I used the switch broom to sweep piles of dead flies out of the cab.
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