Here is where we'll feature a different mayfly photo every week through the mayfly season. These are pictures submitted by you!! So get those photos coming. Snap a kewl pic of a mayfly (or lots of mayflies) with your camera, cell phone, or pda and email it to us at photo@mayflynews.net. Each week we'll feature the best photo here.
Photo taken by: Shane Location:McDonalds Port Clinton, Ohio next to Super 8 Hotel Date: June 20, 2010 Comments:"Anyone want a window seat?" Would you like fries with those mayflies?
Photo taken by: Beverly and Wayne Location: Holiday Inn - Marblehead, Ohio Date: June 17, 2010 Comments: "This is our first ever experience with mayflies. These were taken at the Holiday Inn in Marblehead on June 17, 2010. We were on our honeymoon there. first time to the lake and first time for this. Crazy. We are from Knockemstiff Ohio." Great pics Beverly and Wayne!! Love the name of your town, BTW.
Photo taken by: Jim Location: Port Clinton, Ohio on E Perry Street in front of Burger King Date: June 15, 2010 Comments: Yes, those are mayflies swarming under the lights.
Photo taken by: Paris Hicks Location: Vermilion, Ohio Date: June 16, 2010 Comments: "Here's a picture I took of a mayfly on a daylily next to my house in Vermilion.
Camera: Canon Rebel XS"
Photo taken by: Julie from Catawba Island, Ohio Location: Put-in-Bay, South Bass Island, Ohio Date: June 18, 2010 Comments: "Taken from the inside of the Boardwalk at Put-in-Bay."
If you look carefully at the mayflies, you can see them in various stages of 'just getting ready to molt (wings are flattened out)' to 'crawling out of their skin.' Of course Perry's Monument makes a fitting backdrop. I'm sure Perry and his crew had to deal with them too!
