mayflies in A Sentence

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    Mayflies are on the menu for this hungry fledgling.

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    The common Himalayan Mayflies are Baetis and the stoneflies belong to Nemura, Capnia, etc.

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    Did you know that there are 2,500 unique species of mayfly in the world?

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    The greatest thrill of my career has been collecting and adding Mayflies and stoneflies to our collection.

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    The streams fed by the melting snow and ice are inhabited by the larvae of Mayflies, stoneflies, caddisflies and dipterous flies.

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    The mayfly larvae are truly aquatic insects, which breathe by means of tracheal gills, borne oh either side of each abdominal segment.

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    The mayfly feeds only as larva and the adult has no opening for feeding, so that its gut is simply filled with air.

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    Order 2. PLECOPTERA: Stoneflies breed in clean, cold, running mountain streams and like Mayflies have a prolonged childhood, extending to over two or three years.

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    For example, Mayflies live only one day, houseflies thirty days, rats three years, dogs twelve years, horses twenty- five years, elephants sixty years and men seventy years.

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    It then walked upstream, searching for food consisting of caddis larvae, water beetles, water boatmen, spiders, tadpoles and nymphs of the mayfly or dragonfly, and sometimes small fish.

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    The adult caddisfly, stonefly, dragonfly, mayfly and mosquito find a pond or a stream, according to the particular habits of the larvae, and deposit the eggs in the water.

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    The Mayflies are the shortest- lived insects and hardly survive a couple of days, as delicate adults, with inconspicuous antennae, two pairs of membranous wings, enormously huge eyes, often occupying the whole head like a turban.

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    As a an entomologist who has studied stoneflies and Mayflies for over 40 years, I have discovered these insects have value far beyond luring trout- they are indicators of water quality in streams and are a crucial piece of the larger food web.

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