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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Mayflies (Ephemeroptera) » Pisciforma » Small Minnow Mayflies (Baetidae)
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small mayfly - female
Copyright © 2007 tom murray

small mayfly - Female
Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
May 29, 2007
Size: ~5mm
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Contributed by tom murray on 1 June, 2007 - 9:35am
Last updated 13 November, 2008 - 7:57am

Moved
Moved from Mayflies.
… tom murray, 13 November, 2008 - 7:57am login or register to post comments

Baetidae
I can't see any hindwings on this one, not even on the larger image on your other site. However, that doesn't necessarily mean they are not there. Some baetids have very tiny threadlike hindwings, and a few lack hindwings in only one sex.

This looks very similar to your other specimen (here) and Andrew's specimen (here). They might be the something like Procloeon. (That is just a guess, not a placement suggestion.)
… Lloyd Gonzales, 12 November, 2008 - 11:49pm login or register to post comments

Nice!
I don't see many mayflies, unfortunately...
This here is not only a female, but if you look behind it, that black lumpy sphere is a recently deposited egg mass.
She probably is resting... after reproducing mayflies die. Adult lifespans measure from half and hour to 24 hrs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayfly#Adult
… Jonas Insinga, 30 April, 2008 - 12:10am login or register to post comments

 
Too bad for the eggs
She laid them on the side of the house under the porch light. Not much chance they'll survive since there's no water around them.
… tom murray, 1 May, 2008 - 9:09pm login or register to post comments

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