Some of the photos showed seagulls feasting on the flies. "Dead midge fly carcasses accumulating in inconvenient ...

A withering rosebud, the brevity of blossom and the one-day wonder of the mayfly: Nature’s ephemeral beauty reminds us of our own finite existence, but melancholy transience also offers moments of ...

The Coos Watershed Association’s (CoosWA) biggest event of the year, the Mayfly Festival, returns to Mingus Park on May 17, ...

with the exception of the last generation of the year (meaning butterflies that complete the life cycle and survive to see winter) that migrate. The migrating insects can live up to eight to nine ...

An illustration of a magnifying glass. An illustration of a magnifying glass.

Emergers and nymphs are often lumped together because they’re both fished subsurface, and they both imitate aquatic insects in pre-adult life stages ... re fishing a mayfly hatch that’s ...

But the Asian needle ant poses a more serious threat - one that goes beyond inconvenience. "It gets a little bit more serious when the sting of an insect can be life-threatening to people who suffer ...

Six months after his dog’s death, a writer reflects on a life of adventures together — and looks ahead to his first summer without Edison in many years.

The references to chemicals, the allusions to the insects’ life cycles, the equipment that my narrator carries—all of that I had to learn. I had to make sure that the narrator comes across as ...

Jim had long considered such a project, but it was the late author and naturalist George Ellison who spurred Smokies Life to undertake adding an insect natural history field guide to the park's ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the crown jewel of the Southern Appalachians, an ancient landscape teeming with life — including what naturalist and explorer William Bartram in 1791 called ...