Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 494
SOMETIMES MAY-FLIES FLY AROUND ELECTRIC LIGHTS INENORMOUS NUMBERS. wave, until finally cast up in thick windrows,miles long, on the lake beach. Millions of deadMay-flies are thus piled up on the shores of theGreat Lakes. We call the May-flies the Ephemeridce (from aGreek word that means living but… … FISH EAT GREAT NUMBERS OF MAY-FLIES. Sometimes the great swarms fall to the waterssurface, and there are swept along by wind and THE MAY-FLYIN FLIGHT. least before this, or for two or even three years,as wingless, aquatic creatures, clinging concealedto the under side of stones in the lake or…
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