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Bridge will go dark for mayflies

Winona Daily News 16 Jun 2026
To help limit the impact of mayfly hatching, the Minnesota Department of Transportation will temporarily turn off lights on the bridges connecting Winona, Red Wing and Wabasha to Wisconsin ... .
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MnDOT dims Mississippi River bridge lights as mayfly hatch begins

Star Tribune 14 Jun 2026
The annual insect emergence can create slick driving conditions on river crossings in southeastern Minnesota ... .
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Mississippi River bridge lights left off to limit mayfly hazards

Winona Daily News 13 Jun 2026
To help limit the impact of mayfly hatching, the Minnesota Department of Transportation will temporarily turn off lights on the bridges connecting Winona, Red Wing and Wabasha to Wisconsin ... .
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Mayflies are swarming across southeast Michigan. How bad are they?

The Monroe News 11 Jun 2026
Experts recommend using a broom, shop vacuum or garden hose to clean up the piles of dead mayflies — removing mayfly carcasses before they decompose will help eliminate a slip hazard and the odor, according to NexGreen.
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“Tisza Blooming”: The Summer’s Most Extraordinary Natural Event Begins

Hungary Today 10 Jun 2026
The Tisza River is once again witnessing the annual mayfly “dance”, a brief but spectacular natural event that turns the water’s surface into a shifting, living cloud ... The Tisza mayfly ...
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Shutting off bridge lights because of mayflies

Clinton Herald 09 Jun 2026
The Illinois Department of Transportation announced on Tuesday that it will be shutting off the bridge’s roadway lights on the U.S. 30 Mississippi River Bridge (Gateway Bridge) between Whiteside County and Clinton beginning Friday, June 12 ... .
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The agony of dealing with mayflies while fishing

The Vindicator 06 Jun 2026
“The mayflies are hatching.” ... Every year from late May through June, just as the weather is getting reliably good and anglers are itching to get out on Erie, Mother Nature throws us her mayfly curveball.
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Ireland’s mayflies are ancient creatures - older than dinosaurs by 80 million years

The Irish Times 23 May 2026
If you don’t fish and you’re not a regular on one of our big western limestone lakes – the likes of Lough Corrib, Mask, Carra, Sheelin and Derg – the excitement around “the mayfly” might seem a bit baffling ... This is the male mayfly dance.
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Mayfly Project empowering foster kids through fly fishing

Observer-Reporter 22 May 2026
If you are not familiar with the organization The Mayfly Project then please follow along ... Keep in mind that I had never heard of the Mayfly project and Bill never mentioned it during our trip ... The following is a quote from Mayfly’s pamphlet.
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Marblehead to turn off streetlights in anticipation of the mayflies

Fremont News Messenger 16 May 2026
MARBLEHEAD – In anticipation of possible swarms of mayflies, the Marblehead Village Council voted to shut off the streetlights, except in the new MORA district ... The village turns off the lights because they attract mayflies.
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Mayflies have crazy, acrobatic sex

Popular Science 09 May 2026
Researchers studying copulation in mayflies pulled off a stunt worthy of the naughtiest ancient Greek myths ... And that’s not even the strangest part of the study titled, “When mayflies have an erection ... Mayfly sex is of a shockingly acrobatic dynamic.
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The bizarre sex life of mayflies: Micro-CT scans reveal ins and outs of swarm Kamasutra

Phys Dot Org 12 Mar 2026
A new study on mayflies of the genus Ecdyonurus illustrates just how multifaceted and surprising reproductive behavior in nature can be ... The life of adult mayflies, whose larvae develop in freshwater, is brief ... The bizarre sex life of mayflies.
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