Alkali flies crowd the shore this time of year. Don'tworry, the alkali flies are shy. They don't like people and they won't botheryou. Look under water, near shore, and you'll see them walking, enclosedin air bubbles. The ranger will show you the fly larva and pupa stages on the submergedrocks.
Birds eat the adult flies and the larvae.
The Paiute Indians usedto harvest the abundant pupae too. It's a newexperience you may not want to miss. This was a staple of the local Indians'diet, and a valuable item for trade to other Indians. As you start to look at the life in the water, realize that much of thecontroversy surroundedthe likelihood that the lake's creatures would notbe able to adapt to greater salinity levels as the lake shrinks. The flieswere already showing the effects, and research was done to predict the levelswhere the falling lake would no longer provide suitable habitat for theirsurvival.