An international group of scientists selected the mayfly because of its unique life cycle. A fully developed mayfly has only a few days to fly, mate and lay eggs before it dies. Good morning. I'm Lulu ...

What has been around for 355 million years but disappears within days of maturity? A group of European entomologists wants the answer to become a household name. They’ve named the Danish mayfly, a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Swarms that block out the lights in fast-food parking lots and slam into windshields in numbers sufficient to make drivers pull over are still a week or more away, but mayflies have started hatching ...

On the five-point Johnson Scale, Sunday night's spectacularly freakish mayfly emergence and hatch along much of the Upper Mississippi was a doozy, rating a 4.5. The unofficial scale, named for Kent ...

Communities along the Great Lakes are preparing for the annual mayfly season, but water temperatures may not be warm enough quite yet for the fishflies to produce massive swarms. "The timing of mayfly ...

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 Danish mayfly, an ancient, penny-sized winged creature that flies for just a few days before its life flickers out, has received the 2021 Insect of the Year honor, a European zoological society ...