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Wildlife in North Carolina, April 1974. Illustration by Duane Raver Jr.

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I heard my first barn swallows today. Good timing on their part because this was happening right by the place where they build nests every year. I think it’s a mayfly hatch. No wonder so many birds visit the borough park this time of year!

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Today I realized I never posted this illustration here! It's from over a year ago, but still one of my favorites I've done. More below >

This character's name is Caíque ! He is a carpenter and a side character in a comic I'm planning where angels exist in a symbiotic relationship with humans titled "Mayflies". In that world angels are esoteric creatures with a life cycle similar to mayflies (hence the name) where they possess recently-deceased humans during their juvenile phase (the merged humans are termed "nymphilim"), which makes up the majority of their lifespan. At the end of the rest of the nymphilim's natural life they undergo metamorphosis and emerge as enormous adult angels, which only live a short while before starting the life cycle again. Basically, got that bug in you.

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Ephemeroptera.

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@repyourwater Brown drakes and double takes... Who's ready for spring fishing?!

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Bug Fact #010

Juvenile hemimetabolous insects are called nymphs, and they look almost exactly like their adult counterparts. However, aquatic nymphs, called naiads, have a couple more differences due to living in a different environment.

For example, this blue-tailed damselfly nymph (Ischnura Elegans) has gills on the end of its abdomen.

Some insects that have naiads (aquatic nymphs) are dragonflies & damselflies (Odonata), mayflies (Ephemeroptera), and stoneflies (Plecoptera).

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