SABULA, IA has a healthy population of mayflies. A mayfly swarm shut down a bridge into Illinois. Motorists stopped on the bridge accumulated mayflies up to the headlights. The police called out the snow mayfly plows
Mayflies are a bioindicator species for water quality. Apparently, the water quality there is good enough to produce an epic mayfly swarm.
Jonathan Neal is an Associate Professor of Entomology at Purdue University and author of the textbook, Living With Insects (2010).
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