You never saw just one: they went around in groups, like mayflies.

Like mayflies, the multitude would not live out the day.

These are generally rather small mayflies with three long tails.

They do not appear to be held straight up as in butterflies or mayflies.

"Only because he believes we're the last mayflies he'll see.

If people died the way mayflies do, we'd probably leave this world less protestingly.

The mayflies rose and fell, always a little nearer to the river's surface.

A lot of good people, good mayflies, died that day.

"Little magazines" are, for the most part, the mayflies of the literary world.

The oldest of the young mayflies watched the water thoughtfully.

The dead mayflies fall onto the fans below, obscuring their view.

Moments before, I saw the trout sipping mayflies from the surface.

Then I looked at the surface of the water and saw it crowded with small fluttering blue mayflies.

Two small three-tailed mayflies are found at midday in early autumn.

He thought of them as mayflies, with their attention always on the passing moment, and no thought for the future.

These are generally quite large mayflies (up to 35 mm) with either two or three very long tails.

If so, it is still possible that mayflies are the oldest order among the flying insects.

I sit in the middle of the canoe and watch the mayflies skitter.

Small labels come and go like mayflies, but they provide the music industry with some semblance of a soul.

He published more than 200 notes on flies, mayflies and caddisflies.

Mayflies, another healthy sign and a source of food for many fish, have reappeared in abundance.

Two other relatively large mayflies may still be encountered in the September twilights.

When that happens, the trout begin to feed on the mayflies, and suddenly the river maps the position of every fish.

Streams with higher populations of insects such as mayflies appear to be preferred.

Despite intensive surveys of the Colorado mayflies, this species has not been collected in the past 50 years.

It contains the alderflies, dobsonflies and fishflies, and there are about 300 known species.

The family Corydalidae contains the megalopterous insects known as dobsonflies and fishflies.

Their closest relatives are the fishflies.

The genera in which the males have normal mandibles, called fishflies, form the subfamily Chauliodinae.

They often have long filamentous antennae, though in male fishflies they are characteristically feathered.

A particularly noteworthy annual event is the rising of fishflies, a kind of mayfly endemic to the Mississippi valley in the region.

Nigronia serricornis has many common names including; hellgrammites or fishflies or saw-combed fishfies.

Neuropterida, an obsolete concept of the order Neuroptera including alderflies, dobsonflies, fishflies and snakeflies.

The group was once known as Planipennia, and at that time also included alderflies, fishflies, dobsonflies and snakeflies, but these are now generally considered to be separate orders (the Megaloptera and Raphidioptera).

They are a family of the order Ephemeroptera.

Mayfly is a type of insect belonging to the order Ephemeroptera.

His main interests among insects were the Diptera and Ephemeroptera.

Molecular studies suggest that this order is the sister to Plecoptera or to Ephemeroptera.

Palingenia longicauda is an aquatic insect in the order Ephemeroptera.

Mayflies are insects which belong to the Order Ephemeroptera.

The stage of subimago exists in the 'Ephemeroptera' (mayflies).

He was also interested in the Orthoptera, Ephemeroptera and other insects of Denmark.

He worked mainly on Ephemeroptera.

He specialised in the Ephemeroptera.

A complete media is found in many Palaeozoic fossil insects and in the Ephemeroptera among recent forms.

This includes all members of the orders Plecoptera, Ephemeroptera, and Odonata.

Technically the subimago of the Ephemeroptera might be described as a stage in a form of hypermetamorphosis, but that is not common practice.

Large populations of species in the insect orders Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera and Trichoptera.

Habroleptoides pauliana is a species in the family Leptophlebiidae, in the Order Ephemeroptera.

Reticulata is used as an order in Foraminifera, and as an undefined higher group in Ephemeroptera.

'That's modern Ephemeroptera for you.'

It feeds on insect aquatic larvae, mainly Plecoptera, Trichoptera and Ephemeroptera.

Members of the order Ephemeroptera (mayflies) do not have a pupal stage, but they briefly pass through an extra winged stage called the subimago.

Ephemeroptera des faunes éthiopiennes et malgache, South African Animal Life, 14, pp.

The Primitive Characters of Extant Mayflies (Ephemeroptera)

Most of them are extinct; the living ones are the Ephemeroptera (mayflies) and Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies).

During the spring the warpaint shiner uses its large terminal mouth to primarily feed on aquatic insect larva from the order Ephemeroptera, such as mayfly nymphs.

Most female insects have an egg-laying tube, or ovipositor; it is absent in termites, parasitic lice, many Plecoptera, and most Ephemeroptera.

The antenna tapers gradually from the base to the tip (e.g. Thysanura, Blattodea, Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera and Trichoptera).

This is the day in the life of the mayfly.

You never saw just one: they went around in groups, like mayflies.

I had come with my friends to the river hoping to find a small mayfly.

What everyone looked at as the way things are done, had, in fact, no more true substance than a mayfly.

Like mayflies, the multitude would not live out the day.

These are generally rather small mayflies with three long tails.

I'd seen it gulp a man down like a mayfly.

This woman and her daughter over in Mayfly went to visit kin for a week.

I remember when it was better fields,' said the old mayfly sharply.

They do not appear to be held straight up as in butterflies or mayflies.

Poor little child; he flickered into life and out of it like a mayfly.

He felt that he was no more significant than a mayfly.

"Only because he believes we're the last mayflies he'll see.

My question is why do living organisms, such as a mayfly compared to a human being, live for a different amount of time?

If people died the way mayflies do, we'd probably leave this world less protestingly.

"Little magazines" are, for the most part, the mayflies of the literary world.

To a mayfly, a single hour May last as long as a century.

And I hear he's got the life expectancy of a mayfly."

A lot of good people, good mayflies, died that day.

He was also a world authority on the mayfly.

The oldest of the young mayflies watched the water thoughtfully.

The mayflies rose and fell, always a little nearer to the river's surface.

The dead mayflies fall onto the fans below, obscuring their view.

Some of them will probably have the life span of a mayfly.

Which of you puny mayfly men will stand against me now?"