Saturday, October 5, 2013

The mayfly October 5, 2013


One aquatic insect is the mayfly with a Scientific name of Ephemerptera. They mayfly lives in streams and ponds. It is fully an aquatic organism as a nymph but lives on land as an adult. The mayfly reproduces just a few hours after molting.  It is eaten by trout and it eats algae. They may fly has 2 to 3 tales, it is the only insect known to molt, and there are about 4000 species of the mayfly. 

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