Giant ayfly Video

[billhouk]

The Giant Mayfly spends two years as a larva and then "gulp".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7dB51cfxek

[billhouk]

OK, that's Giant Mayfly.

[DaveMac]

That was something to see, I enjoyed it. Thank you for sharing!

[popperfly]

Growing up on Lake St Clair, in Michigan. Come the middle of May to June the hatch would take place, there would be thousands of them at every street light, traffic light, store buildings lights, you would find them flying around and piles of them on the ground. The intersections in the morning were like stopping on ice or grease, the ground would be completely covered with fish flies (may flies). You would have to wash your house or business everyday because they smelled like fish when they died, I believe they only live for 24 to 48 hours. Some years were better then others, we even had a festival called the "Fish Fly Festival" in New Baltimore every year.

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[jimmadsen]

AMAZING...we had the same thing in Yankton, SD. l They were so thick that they were 10 deep around the street lights in the marina parking lot and turned the evergreens a dark muddled brown. On the lake there would be huge slicks of the larval casings that would stretch along the lake for hundreds of yards at a time.