Sunday, June 21, 2009

A good scrabble word "naiads"

Well here it is the end of June and the mayflies are invading the nabe. I was a bit curious if a mayfly and a fishfly were one and the same so I checked around a bit and it seems they have several other monikers. There are around 2500 species worldwide and 630 in North America. Other names like dayfly,shadfly,lake fly, midgee,green bay flies, canadian soldiers and canadian sailors. What no canuk airforce? They start out as nymphs or naiads and hatch out to live a few minutes to a few days in fresh water when adults. It is a good sign that they are on the comeback trail as it means the water is cleaning itself up after a century of pollution. There was a swarm a couple of years ago near W. lk Erie that actually showed up on doppler radar. The eggs are laid on the surface and sink to the bottom and over a 1 yr. period they moult 20-30 times before they get wings and the final moult where get this the male has 2 penises. This is the stage called the alate and fish love them as well as fisherman who call them dun. The male has extra long legs to clasp the females as get this the female has 2 gonopore. It's gotta be the Greek word for nympho is all I can figgure.



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