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Michigan insects in the garden – Week 4: Mayflies The brief appearance of the mayfly. The mayfly crams its adulthood into a brief period. Within 48 hours, they develop wings, fly towards land, mate and die. If you reside near one of the Great Lakes, your garden or home and community may briefly be overwhelmed … Read more

How to Survive a Massive Mayfly Swarm By Leslie Mertz Near Lake St. Clair in the southeastern corner of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula, your summer starts off with a crunch. You pick up your foot and see what’s left of an inch-long burrowing mayfly (Hexagenia limbata) on the sidewalk. This is the beginning of a short-lived … Read more

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The housefly is the most common fly species. The adult houseflies have hairy bodies, one pair of wings, and are usually either grey or black in color. Their eyes are red, and females are generally a bit larger than males. Houseflies mate once, and the female then stores the sperm so she can use it … Read more

Because they’re such an old group of insects, they do things a little differently than the new-fangled insects you see these days. What’s unique about mayflies is that, of their four life stages — egg, larva, subimago and imago, or adult — two of them have wings. This is unusual — a bit like Clark … Read more

Salutations, BugFans, With apologies to the possum that holes up behind the bird food barrels each winter, of all the critters that visit the BugLady’s front porch, the fishfly is her favorite (Mom really does like you best). The first thing you notice when you Google “Fishfly” is that there are lots of hits for … Read more

Order: Ephemeroptera Status: Not Listed Classification: Invertebrate Description Despite their name, mayflies are active during the warmer months of the year, not just May. They tend to be gray, yellow, or brown and have long, thin abdomens. Mayfly larvae are aquatic and found in nearly all types of water bodies, from streams to lakes. The … Read more

Billions of Fishflies Swarm the Midwest, Show up on Weather Maps While people in the Midwest and Canada know to expect a swarm of fishflies every summer, this year’s hatch is so massive it’s showing up on weather radar maps. Last week, the Cleveland office of the National Weather Service tweeted a video of a … Read more

That’s a fish fly. It means you’re living in a healthy ecosystem Fish flies spend years underwater preparing to breed in the summer season It’s an unusual insect with spotted wings and a long tail. You’ve probably seen one fluttering around the Windsor-Essex area. It’s called a fish fly (sometimes called a shadfly or mayfly) … Read more

Mayflies make annual appearance in lakeside communities in ‘dreaded part of summer’ St. Clair Shores — Karsten Younes left his job this week on the shores of Lake Saint Clair, gazed up at a nearby light and sighed. “Summer’s coming,” he said. Above his head and in the light, Younes saw a swarm of mayflies, … Read more