Ephemeroptera

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Fig. 150 Ephemeroptera . Ephemera sp.

Ephemeroptera

an order of the class Insecta, containing the mayflies. They are EXOPTERGYOTES, and spend the great majority of their life in the nymphal stage and only a few minutes or hours in the nonfeeding, adult stage.
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If the maker of the body imprint has been correctly identified, then the trace represents one of the first records of ephemeropterans.
Invertebrate trace fossils from the Pennsylvanian Rhode Island Formation of Massachusetts, USA
Nevertheless, all taxa relied heavily on ephemeropterans and may compete for resources at some level.
Dietary overlap of invertivorous fishes and macroinvertebrates in the Gila River, New Mexico
Ephemeropterans recorded their complete absence at St III and IV.
Spatio-temporal variations in the community structure of macrobenthic invertebrate fauna of Gharana Wetland (reserve), Jammu (J&K, India)
There were no significant differences in biomass between benthic taxa (chironomids, trichopterans, amphipods, hirudineans, oligochaetes, gastropods, bivalves, ephemeropterans, and others) at the studied distances (one-way ANOVA, df = 6, MS = 1.8; F = 3.14; p < 0.001, post hoc comparisons, ns).
Spatial distribution of macrofauna in a littoral zone with drifting macroalgae in the Neva estuary/Pohjaloomastiku levik Neeva estuaari kinnitumata vetikamattidega rannikumeres
The bottle-traps sometimes caught other insects including bush crickets, cantharid beetles, ephemeropterans, plecopterans, tipulids and various other dipterans.
A novel trap to capture ballooning spiders
Ephemeropterans and Trichopterans are not usual prey items for eastern pipistrelles; however, they dominate the diet when they are found.
Notes on the late summer diet of male and female eastern pipistrelles (Pipistrellus subflavus) at Fort Mountain State Park, Georgia
In August, hemipterans, molluscs, chironomids, and ephemeropterans together composed 69% of the stomach contents by weight.
Food habits of yellow perch, Perca Flavescens, in West Long Lake, Nebraska
These disparities were mostly due to large numbers of Ephemeropterans collected at Winous Point (a Lake Erie coastal wetland) in traps set at lakeside and in an adjacent diked coastal marsh.
The Relationship Between Patterns in Flying Adult Insect Assemblages and Vegetation Structure in Wetlands of Ohio and Texas(1)
Ephemeropterans were captured in relatively high percentage by Lacki et al.
The gray bat, Myotis grisescens, in Indiana

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