LAST WEEK I was sitting in my canoe bailing out rain water when a large and beautiful insect floated by on the river — a mayfly. The fact that it was nearly June and this was the first one I’d seen this year wasn’t really surprising. Mayflies can emerge at any time from April through to the autumn but the principal hatches are normally in late May and early June. The reason the name doesn’t coincide accurately with the month is because they were named before the Pope changed the calendar and at that time May was a couple of weeks later in the year…
Irish Examiner, 01/06/15. Read the full article ‘Brief life of magical mayflies‘.
