CONSIDER THE MAYFLY
Its name is a misnomer. The diminutive insect is active
more often than just the month of May. My husband and I spotted a plethora of those
dainty mayflies flitting about while we were walking on an Indian summer day.
“Look quickly – they only live a day,” said my biologist husband.
“Sometimes two days, at most.”
Mayflies, in the order Ephemeroptera, have one job as an adult: to mate and produce eggs
to start the cycle all over again. The female lays the eggs on top of the water.
As the eggs fall to the bottom of the water, the female quickly becomes fish
food for surface lurkers.
