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Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :

I just went to click a brand-new thread titled "this is a mayfly" started by Noemon, with no posts on it yet.

Wanting to see what he was up to, I clicked on the thread, only to be told it didn't exist.

Sure enough, when I refreshed the screen, the thread was gone.

Was this a demonstration? Something to show us (anyone who was around for it) what a mayfly really looks like? [Dont Know]

Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :

[Big Grin]

Just playing--I honestly didn't think anybody'd even see that thread.

Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :

So is this a mayfly thread, too? [Wink]

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

*waits to go POOF*

Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :

Nope. How could I ever call this a "mayfly" thread now that Noemon has shown what a real "mayfly" looks like?

His mayfly mocks all the others with its sincerity, simplicity and purity.

And very short lifespan. [Wink]

Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :

Well, what lives for longer than a mayfly, but still a very brief period?

A Daddylonglegs?

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

Fruitflies have a pretty short lifespan.

Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :

A junebug?

Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :

So this is a "fruitfly" or "junebug" thread. Simple. [Razz]

Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :

That reminds me--earlier today I watched a junebug and a spider locked in a death dance. The bug was pretty well entwined in the spider's web, and the spider was biting it repeatedly in the leg. I had to get back to work, but I want to go and check on how it went before I go home today. The bug was doomed, I think, but I wasn't sure that it wouldn't be able to break free of the web before it died.

Posted by zgator (Member # 3833) on :

I think the februarybug is the shortest lived.

Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :

That's February *beetle* zan! Gosh!

Just went to check, by the way, and it would seem that the June bug escaped.

Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :

Or was eaten.

Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :

Spiders usually leave some dessicated corpses behind. I'm sure Noemon knows to look for those, Teshi. [Wink]

Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :

There were no husks in evidence. No spider either though. Wonder where she was hiding? Her web was still there, or what the junebug left of it anyway. Wonder if she's riding the junebug into the sunset?

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

*pictures that, complete with miniaturized sunset*

[ROFL]

Posted by Papa Moose (Member # 1992) on :

What about a cicada thread? You could post it again in 17 years or something....

Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :

Well, that was a light-hearted comment, but I don't really know much about spiders so [Smile]

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Well, that June Bug spent quite a large proportion of its life escaping from the web. How's that for survival instinct?

Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :

Or a grasshopper thread that hops from subject to subject.

...Wait, we already have enough of those.

Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :

[Smile]

Yeah, I think most of our threads are grasshopper threads.

Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :

quote:
Well, that June Bug spent quite a large proportion of its life escaping from the web. How's that for survival instinct?

Well, was it survival or denial?

Sheesh. The bug was terminal, after all. The poor spider was probably trying to do a good deed. The web was probably just a good-hearted (although misguided) attempt at providing death with dignity. Kind of combining the features of a hospice and snack bar, no doubt a result of the spider sitting through one too many viewings of "Soylent Green."

::runs for cover::