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Definitions of dayfly in various dictionaries:
noun - slender insect with delicate membranous wings having an aquatic larval stage and terrestrial adult stage usually lasting less than two days
noun - a winged insect
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Short-lived insect |
Insect with a short lifespan |
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Feb 22 2018 Wall Street Journal |
Aug 5 2013 Eugene Sheffer - King Feature Syndicate |
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See mayfly. |
slender insect with delicate membranous wings having an aquatic larval stage and terrestrial adult stage usually lasting less than two days |
A short-lived winged insect specifically (a) an insect of the order Ephemeroptera "mayfly". |
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Mayflies (also known as Canadian soldiers in the United States, and as shadflies or fishflies in Canada and the upper Midwestern U.S.; also up-winged flies in the United Kingdom) are aquatic insects belonging to the order Ephemeroptera. This order is part of an ancient group of insects termed the Palaeoptera, which also contains dragonflies and damselflies. Over 3,000 species of mayfly are known worldwide, grouped into over 400 genera in 42 families. * Mayflies exhibit a number of ancestral traits that were probably present in the first flying insects, such as long tails and wings that do not fold flat over the abdomen. Their immature stages are aquatic fresh water forms (called "naiads" or "nymphs"), whose presence indicates a clean, unpolluted environment. They are unique among insect orders in having a fully winged terrestrial adult stage, the subimago, which moults into a sexually mature adult, the imago. * Mayflies "hatch" (emerge as adults) from spring to autumn, not necessarily in M |