In a river town like Dubuque, everything in a several block vicinity of the river is inundated each summer with a coating of fishflies (mayflies). These insects hatch as a population all at the same time, so for a few days each summer they literally cover every surface then die, and must be shoveled/swept away. The hatching of the fishflies is a scourge to all who must deal with them.
At an event last week, the speaker commented that his biologist son informed him that the more hatches of fishflies, the better the quality of the water. There really is an up-side to the widely perceived down-side of these insects!
And so it goes with much of life. If you look hard enough or learn more, there usually is a positive side as well as the negative. It is worth digging to find it.
-- beth triplett
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I call that the "Leslie Spin"... :)
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