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Mayflies 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
Rhithrogena germanica subimago on Equisetum hyemale
Adult Atalophlebia with the cylindrical dorsal or turban eyes visible
Mayflies (known locally as shadflies) swarm briefly in enormous numbers in Ontario.
Rainbow trout are among the main predators of mayflies.
The Holy Family with the Dragonfly, also known as The Holy Family with the Mayfly, The Holy Family with the Locust, and The Holy Family with the Butterfly is an engraving by the German artist Albrecht
Mayfly
…encyclopaedists since Aristotle and Pliny the Elder in classical antiquity. The German engraver Albrecht Dürer included a mayfly in his 1495 engraving The Holy Family with the Mayfly to suggest a link between heaven and earth. The English poet George Crabbe compared the brief life of a daily newspaper with that of a mayfly in the…
De Heilige Familie met de libelle, RP P OB 1204
A variant: The Holy Family with the Mayfly (NGA 1943.3.3453)
The common European mayfly Ephemera vulgata
Dürer Alte Pinakothek