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The Mayflies of North and Central America (Paperback, Minnesota Archive Editions Ed.)
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The Mayflies of North and Central America (Paperback, Minnesota Archive Editions Ed.)
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The Mayflies of North and Central America was first published in
1976. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make
long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published
unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.
Mayflies have fascinated man for centuries because of the brief
span of their adult lives. These aquatic insects spend most of
their lives as nymphs in water, then develop into winged stages and
soon die, most species having an adult life of only two or three
days. This brevity is implied in the very name of the order,
Ephemeroptera. The mayflies are almost worldwide in distribution,
being found everywhere except in Antarctica, the extreme Arctic,
and many small oceanic islands. All by three of the twenty families
in the world occur in North or Central America, the regions covered
in this volume. The book provides a modern, useful, and
well-illustrated key to the adults and nymphs. Data on habitats,
behavior, and life history are given for each genus.
Characteristics of nymphs and adults are given for families,
subfamilies, and genera, with brief accounts for extralimital
families. A discussion of methods of collecting and preserving
specimens precedes the main portion of the text. The book is
generously illustrated with drawings, photographs, and a map. The
role of aquatic insects as indicators of water pollution has
received increasing attention, and in this connection this book
will be of special interest to those concerned with pollution
problems. Mayflies, besides indicating the presence of pollutants,
also help remove such substances from the waters, the authors
explain. As a basic reference work, the book is essential for all
biological science libraries. Many fly-fishermen are amateur
students of mayflies, since the nymphs of larger species are used
as bait. With the help of this volume the fisherman can acquire a
greater knowledge of aquatic entomology and relate to his sport.
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