Searching for Mayflies

 

We came across the looping dance of hundreds of mayflies. We were enveloped in a swarm of large mayflies – with their distinctive triple tails, one shorter in the middle – that rose and then glided back down, rose then glided back down, resting now and then on the fence post or wire, or on reeds or grasses besides the stream.

 
JournalBarney Heywood