Every July, millions of mayflies descend on cities and towns overnight, blanketing streets and swarming around every light ...

It's not easy being a mayfly. Mayflies are insects that spend most of their life in water and provide clues about the health of our streams and other waterways. Because they are often sensitive to ...

The Danish Mayfly was selected Friday by an international group of entomologists and others as the Insect of the Year for 2021, but it won't have long to celebrate its 15 minutes of fame. The insect, ...

There’s a reason why mayflies belong in the Ephemeroptera order of insects. It’s a mouthful but if you look close enough at ...

A single mayfly is a delicate creature—with its long, slender body, translucent wings, and two or three thread-like tails. But in the summertime, hordes of mayflies emerge from lakes and rivers to ...

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 ...

A tiny mayfly that died 100 million years ago, but was preserved for perpetuity in amber, is helping to shed light on ancient ecosystems. About 100 million years ago, a tiny mayfly had a problem. Like ...

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 ...