Talk:Mayfly

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Contents 1 predaceous species and time spent mating 2 fishflies 3 Nickname in Ohio 4 Fishfly?

[edit] predaceous species and time spent mating

I removed these from the article:

In the USA the predaceous species tend to live in sand bottomed streams such as those found in Nebraska and Iowa (certain streams in Indiana and Illinois have also been known to have the predaceous forms.)

This was not attributed to any source, and it's completely incorrect. One major often-predator species, Isonychia bicolor, is very common in rocky streams throughout the Midwest and the East.

The majority of the life of the adult is spent in mating swarms.

This is another unattributed error. Usually, most of the life of the adult is spent molting from the subimago to the imago and waiting for ideal conditions (usually the right time of day) to form mating swarms. There is usually at least an overnight wait which lasts longer than the brief mating swarm (which is typically an hour or so).

[edit] fishflies

This is a note I left for User_talk:Taxman.

From the article mayfly, which you have edited:

It often happens that all the mayflies in a population mature at once, and for a day or two in the springtime, mayflies will be everywhere, dancing around each other in large groups, or resting on every available surface.

Both immature and adult mayflies are an important part of the food chain, particularly for carnivorous fish like trout.

Mayflies are also an industrial nuisance, as the large population of dead adults can clog the intakes of air and water supply systems. A good example of this is found in the nuclear industry when plants located near fresh water can have their cooling water intakes clogged by the corpses.

If you live along a certain stretch of the Mississippi River you know what fishflies are. I do not want to deface the fine article, but something needs to be added, perhaps another article, about the nuisance that gazillions of mayflies/fishflies do on a certain day in June (not May). By the millions, these winged-genitalia arise from the river, get downright sexual with lights, and by dawn, leave a huge pile of dead ones around or on any light left on overnight. A few perseverate to invade one's storm windows and die there.--FourthAve 10:34, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

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The current trend in taxonomy is to lump the hemimetabola into the paurometabola. Is this something you would consider updating on your page? Sphongophorus 16:24, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Nickname in Ohio

The name "mufflehead" actually refers to midges. Mapsax 20:06, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

More Ohio: The reference I added after "Canadian soldier" is a graphic from the May 25, 2006 Cleveland Plain Dealer called "Born to swarm". (Direct link to graphic: http://www.cleveland.com/insideout/wide/mayfly.gif) Mapsax 17:36, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fishfly?

Is the current redirect from fishfly correct? Neuroptera and Megaloptera both mention fishflies(Chauliodes), but they should probably not link here.EricR 23:07, 13 July 2006 (UTC)