Mayflies have long been indicators of the ecological health of the lakes, rivers, and streams. The more mayflies present in water, the better the water quality. But scientists from Virginia Tech and ...

Mayflies have long been indicators of the ecological health of the lakes, rivers, and streams. The more mayflies present in water, the better the water quality. But scientists from Virginia Tech and ...

BILLINGS – If you’ve ever wondered about the water quality in a stream, river or lake you are fishing, just ask a mayfly. Mayflies are winged insects that spend the early stages of their life ...

Hexagenia nymphs are large sediment burrowers that are sensitive to hypoxia. Major declines in some lake populations have been attributed to reduced concentrations of dissolved oxygen near the ...

On July 4, 2015, crowds gathered in downtown La Crosse to watch the fireworks. But it wasn't long before they were confronted with something else soaring through the sky that night. Thousands of ...

Researchers report recent declines in mayfly emergence over major North American waterways. Seasonal animal movements drive the transport of biomass and nutrients between ecosystems, thereby ...

Oneida Lake’s annual mayfly hatch once looked like scenes from a 1950s B-movie. Each June billions of the bugs would emerge from the muck on the bottom of the lake, shed their skins, and fly inland in ...

Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, Vol. 85, No. 3 (JULY 2012), pp. 245-258 (14 pages) Mayflies (Ephemeroptera) in aquatic naiad stages are known to be filter feeders of detritus and algae, ...

You've probably also seen the gag-inducing video footage of the mayfly "blizzard" on the bridge from over the weekend. But rest assured: the Columbia-Wrightsville area isn't the only place that's ...

The burrowing mayfly is well-known to Lake Erie-area residents because they hatch all at once in huge summer swarms — estimated at 88 billion insects — that can be seen on radar. Between 2015 and 2019 ...