Mayflies Covering a Truck in North Bay, ON<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nAfter they have emerged from their watery home and are now in the adult form, their life becomes very simple.\u00a0 Find a partner and mate!\u00a0 That is their only purpose in life once they reach that adult stage.\u00a0 Their mouth parts are vestigial (a fancy way of saying they have no function and are just for show) and their digestive systems are filled with air.\u00a0 The lifespan of the adult Mayfly can last anywhere between 30 minutes to one day depending on the individual species.\u00a0 Am I ever glad humans didn’t follow that life-cycle!<\/p>\n
Mayfly Fast Fact – <\/strong>Most Mayfly species spend their immature life in streams and rivers; however, there are few that prefer the lake bed.\u00a0 When these lake dwellers emerge, they typically emerge in great numbers.\u00a0 Believe it or not the Doppler Weather Radar actually picked up a group of Mayflies emerging out of Lake Eerie one year.\u00a0\u00a0 For my Northern Ontario readers, I am almost positive this is why their can be numerous shadflies in the North Bay area as they are probably all emerging from Lake Nipissing.\u00a0 For my non-Northern Ontario readers – North Bay has had some pretty bad years for Mayflies where the roads were actually shimmering due to the number of insects.\u00a0 Pretty crazy, right?<\/p>\nWell that does it for today’s insect Wild Fact.\u00a0 I will see you all tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It has been quite some time since we talked about the intriguing world of insects.\u00a0 In fact, I can’t remember the last insect Wild Fact!\u00a0 So today we are going to learn about the Mayfly.\u00a0 There are about 2500 species of Mayflies and 630 different species just in North America.\u00a0 You may know these little insects as shadflies, fishflies, jinx fly or midgee.\u00a0 No matter what you call them though, they are all still Mayflies. The Mayfly is part of an ancient group of insects called Paleoptera which also includes dragonflies and damselfies.\u00a0 Now this group isn’t as special as, <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,4024],"tags":[348,1436,1438,339,1434,1439,1437,4025,1435,1440],"yoast_head":"\n
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