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  1. Ephemeroptera, order Ephemeroptera, Ephemerida, order Ephemeridanoun

    mayflies

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  1. ephemeroptera

    Mayflies (also known as shadflies or fishflies in Canada and the upper Midwestern United States, as Canadian soldiers in the American Great Lakes region, and as 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 have 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 and highly oxygenated aquatic environment. They are unique among insect orders in having a fully winged terrestrial preadult stage, the subimago, which moults into a sexually mature adult, the imago. Mayflies "hatch" (emerge as adults) from spring to autumn, not necessarily in May, in enormous numbers. Some hatches attract tourists. Fly fishermen make use of mayfly hatches by choosing artificial fishing flies that resemble them. One of the most famous English mayflies is Rhithrogena germanica, the fisherman's "March brown mayfly".The brief lives of mayfly adults have been noted by naturalists and 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 satirical poem "The Newspaper" (1785), both being known as "ephemera".

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  1. ephemeroptera

    Ephemeroptera is an order of insects, also known as mayflies. They are known for their short lifespan, with some species living for only a few hours. They typically inhabit freshwater environments during their larval stages before emerging as winged adults. Their key characteristics include a triangular pair of wings, long, slender bodies, and two or three thread-like tails. They play crucial roles in their ecosystems, both as predators and prey, and their presence often indicates a healthy aquatic environment.

Entomology

  1. Ephemeroptera

    briefly winged: = ephemerida; q.v.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of ephemeroptera in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of ephemeroptera in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

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