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Article: MAYFLIES IN JULY.(NEWS)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- July 18, 1997
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Byline: Ben French Post staff reporter
The mayflies are back.
Hovering about 20 feet above the water line, these thin, long creatures burst out by the thousands every summer to finish their lives in a few fleeting hours of airborne adulthood.
Alias shadfly, sandfly, dayfly, fishfly and drake, the little creatures clog gutters, make roads slippery and, dying within hours of taking flight for the first time, leave a faint scent of decay in the air.
Anyone who lives or works along a river or stream knows the mayfly.
''They seem to be attracted to the light,'' said Barleycorn's Yacht Club manager Larry Short. ''They come in and ...