Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X LORAIN — That annual spectacle of nature that plasters windows, buildings and roadways with ...

Mayfly adults typically live for only one day. The female mayfly may live for less than five minutes as an adult ...

Mayflies are small, short-lived (as adults) insects of the Order Ephemeroptera. As adults, most emerge from their nymph form, take flight, mate, lay eggs and die in just a day or two. The common name ...

Tychoparthenogenesis is characterized by low hatching success of unfertilized eggs from females of typically sexually reproducing species (White, 1973; Bell, 1982; Suomalainen et al., 1987).

People couldn't miss them Monday night. Not the fireworks, the mayflies. Colloquially known as 24-hour bugs, the flies were seen in hordes by large lights and near the tree lines along the Illinois ...

Some living things can live for over 10,000 years, while others end their lives in a very short period of time. Experts say that some mayflies, which are representative of short-lived animals, have an ...

Earlier this year I wrote about the annual emergence of Lake Flies in Wisconsin. But wait, there's more! More insects, that is. This week Wisconsin-ites were treated to a mayfly emergence. Just how ...