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 ...

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 ...

Millions of mayflies swarm lakeside communities every year and land on any surface they can find. Mayfly corpses decompose into a fatty, slippery mess that can make roads and sidewalks dangerous.

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 ...

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 ...

For some people spotting a megalyn mayfly buzzing around in mid air inside New York’s swanky Café Carlyle is an unwelcome disturbance. Especially when that mayfly is flitting around on stage while ...

`He lies at the watch for any fly or minnow that comes near to him; and he especially loves the May-fly, which is bred of the cod-worm, or caddis" Izaak Walton's The Compleat Angler was published in ...

In the heart of the nation's capital, in a courthouse of the U.S. government, one man will stop at nothing to keep his honor, and one will stop at nothing to find the truth.