CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - BIG BUGS, LITTLE, ODD AND INDIFFERENT BUGS 
			 DESCEND UPON WYNOT
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WYNOT TRIBUNE JULY 20, 1939

BIG BUGS, LITTLE, ODD AND INDIFFERENT BUGS DESCEND UPON WYNOT

Residents in and near Wynot think there are more insects of various 
kinds this summer than ever before. Besides the hoppers there are 
black beetles and gray beetles, both of which eat the garden 
vegetables and more different kinds of bugs than was ever seen before. 
Until a few days ago no one had ever heard of a fish fly. And will 
somebody please explain what kind of a fly a fish fly is? In a letter 
received by Laura Sonneman from her cousin Hilda Sonneman of Winona, 
Minn., she tells the following story about fish flies.

The other night our little city was besieged by an army of millions 
of fish flies or May flies as some people call them. Towns along the 
river are invaded by the flies about once a year. They head for the 
"bright lights" and were thicker this time than they have ever been 
due no doubt to the very warm weather. When I went to work yesterday 
morning I noticed there were piles of them about a foot high in some 
places under the lamp posts or under the store windows that are 
lighted at night. In fact the street department had to shovel them 
into trucks and haul them away like snow. There is an oder of fish 
connected with them-- I suppose that because they come from the river.