that last soundbite... throw this man into the river

Honestly, never thought I'd say this, but having living most my life in SE Michigan until moving a few years ago... Kinda miss the fish flies. Brings back memories of home.

those are mayflies. fish flies are different, and are actually in the same family as stone flies, and dobson flies. the fishfly shows traits of both. fish flies are often confused with dobson flies. but male fishflies just have the feathery attenae but no long pincer like mandibles... they are marginally smaller too.

I found this poor bug on my trampoline. It is brown it looks like a dragonfly it has 4 long wings like a dragonfly but it has small eyes, thick curled antenna, and its legs are fuzzy... it looks like it is paralyzed and it is shaking and I tried to look it up it says it is a 'Dysmicohermes disjunctus' species of fishfly like in this video here but I am not entirely sure what it is! To me it looks like some sort of moth/dragonfly hybrid lol. Please help! I feel bad for this thing.

I am reading a book that takes place in Michigan and it's during the, "Fishfly" season. The book is very descriptive, but I had to look up these creatures to see if they were real or if the author made them up. Thank you for the video, I now have a visual on these nasty things. They must be very hard to live with.

Nice, clean video! dSLR HD?

I have a question for people who live near the lake and have experienced the fishfly invasion in previous years......... Are the fishflys still turning up in the last few years? I have noticed a HUGE reduction in the variety and number of insects where I live in rural southeast West Virginia over the last 5 years. It has me very worried. I used to live in Michigan and recall the fishflys in such numbers that they actually made the freeway around Monroe slippery at times and caused accidents from the mass of crushed insects. The insects started disappearing here in S.E. West Virginia where I live at the same time that we started getting good cell phone coverage.....about 5 years ago, and has gotten worse every year since. No more swarms of varied insect species at night around outside lights. Hardly any at all! Also, this area is not a big crop production area with lots of insecticide in use . I have noticed the same lack of insects throughout the state and national park systems where I live and often hike. I am very concerned.

My favourite bug. I live in Michigan and am moving to the Eastern Coast specifically for these every summer.

they come around area around 3nd,3rd week of july

Fish flies are a sign of a healthy river...

im from a river town on the missisippi river...we called them barge flies

Nobody eats them. Come on!

I think fish flies are awesome.

as a Protien i will fuckin' prefer to eat ants

i live there too! they're so nasty. i woke up this morning and they're all over my garage.

Do birds eat these things?

One; because they are an indicator of how the lake is doing. They feed on the algae so they do clean the lake in a way. Two; they feed the fish population. Having family that grew up on the lake; if people and stores would shut off their outside lights (NB used to do that in the 60's) and shine spotlights onto the water the Mayflies (which is what these are) would stay out over the water. I do that with my pond, change outdoor lights to yellow and they stay away from the house.

@mariannrusselllooney It was for me, thanks for the info :)

interesting and rly cool! bet they are a great indicator for how the ecosystems doing and they prolly very beneficial!! :D

I'd have a heart attack. I hate it when they click their wings together.. it sounds like a wood pecker

Those are actually Mayflies.

lake st.clair's beaches are closed nearly every year due to e. coli levels.

I live in Windsor (which is near Detroit) and especially during the summer, they're a problem! Every summer and late spring, they're all over the walls of my house, the sidewalk, the swings, everywhere you can imagine! I can't even imagine someone eating them like in this video! I've been in the area for around 4 years, and I can confirm that I still get scared of them to this very day! What's even more disgusting is when they're dead after like a day, they stay on the walls and ground, and if they're alive, they latch onto your legs and/or arms and you have to shake them to make them get off! Fortunately, they're harmless, but they're gross. So, that's my experience with fishflies as a Windsorite!

Lmao the leaf blower.

Trust me, you wouldn't ants are very spicy.. or something.

Mayflies

I was stationed in Michigan. We live on Selfridge ANB, and they were bad, seeing that we lived close to the water... Yuck, lol!

Here's a little tidbit for ya-(I grew up in GPS on this lake) 1=FishFlys come from the bottom of the lake thus making the lake that year clean&great for fishing.And 2-they do NOT have mouths-they only live 24hr.-sheds it outer 'skin' then die-crawling right out of it's skin whole. They crackle&Snap when driving over piles of them under all our streetlights&DO smell like fish.Cats eat them-that's gross! Was this helpful or even a tad bit interesting for all of you KZfaqrs? Please Reply!

i'm from michigan. i know quite a few things about fish flies. there are over 600 types of mayfly species. the video says "fish flies". new baltimore has a "fish fly" festival. i've lived along lake st. clair or near it my entire life, where "fish flies" is the most common epithet used for this type of insect. do you live in michigan? obviously not.

Damn so i'll go with TUNA :)

I still feel their a hazard especially for drivers since they do get under the tires making them slip can cause fatal accidents as you can't put yellow lights on your car...

OH DAMN. I probably should have stopped to see what I was talking about before I posted an ignorant youtube comment... I was under the impression that mayflies were an order of insects, and fishflies were a genus of a separate order of insects. Please look things up before you tell me I am a moron.

Man seriously, where are the damn frogs?

those are shadflies

WHAT?!?! Who would eat them (aside from fish.. lol)??? I've been exposed to these lil' guys (and gals) my entire life. They're kinda gross- and bring a VERY fishy smell with them when they "take over". If you come to Michigan during their peak- I urge caution while driving... they CAN be more slippery than ice, if there's enough of them.

I saw so lots of fish flies and i scared of them.😥😣

We live in MI and this may be a necessary evil but trust me I FREAK OUT EVERY YEAR! Thankfully, we've moved to Golfview wayyy west no fish flies

anybody look this up because timmy timato?

A big giant mosquito with wings

those are money , good food for aquarium fish . Catch them and sell them.

EAT them? Seriously? I'd starve first. Used to be terrified of these when I was little. At least they only live what, a day or 2. On the positive side they're a sign the water is healthy.

Those are mayflies not fishflies.

why does it have to be scientifically inaccurate? it's a nick name. it doesn't have to refer to the specie or the genus. it refers to how they come from the water, smell like fish, and are used for bait in fishing.

living thru it right now.....oh the joy! NOT! *lol*

No quando sono così tanti, li schiaccio col piede...

Omg I hate fishflies one came on me at a picnic and I ran around screaming and crying and Im 12 now

i fucking hate these things. please get me out of michigan.

People eat them? Ewwww!!!! I do not eat anything that is looking at me LOL!

It may be the commonly accepted slang but it is scientifically inaccurate.

My daughter moved to Mt Clemens Michigan after being born & raised 18 years in Illinois... She has now experianced the fishfly population and know how she was w/one bug in the house? (EEEK) let alone a swarm of millions? I personally don't know how the locals put up w/that horror every year without moving? Those creatures would drive me out in a second! That's a hazard that the state should exterminate! why don't they?