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• n  slender insect with delicate membranous wings having an aquatic larval stage and terrestrial adult stage usually lasting less than two days

• Each love affair is its own life, and whether its span is that of a mayfly or a Galpagos tortoise, it has a life cycle of birth, growth, maturity, decay, death.
• And whether its span is that of a mayfly or a Galapagos tortoise, it has a life cycle of birth, growth, maturity, decay, death.
• The watching thousands bate their breath to see such bravery in a mincing mayfly.

• dayfly
• shadfly

News & Articles

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• Researcher: Mayflies return a good sign
  Lake Erie's mayfly population is surviving and showing no signs of trouble despite water quality problems over the last few years that have caused alarm.
  June 17, 2013 - News Channel 5 Cleveland
• Mayflies survive in Lake Erie despite water woes
  A researcher in northern Ohio says that Lake Erie's mayfly population shows no signs of trouble despite recent water quality woes.
  June 16, 2013 - WTRF Wheeling
• Annual Return of the Mayfly festival is June 22
  PUT-IN-BAY — The National Park Service site is hosting the fifth annual Return of the Mayfly festival from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m June 22 at Perry’s Victory and International Peace Memorial.
  June 15, 2013 - Port Clinton News Herald

Quotes

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• Rex Hunt in The Age
  I can think of no better place to fly fish,says Rex Hunt, the two-time Australian Rules premiership player who once opened a tackle shop and now runs a big business kissing fish. "Sight fishing for mayfly feeders in the high country lakes...