Is a Mayfly a Shadfly?

Mayflies are also called shadflies and lake flies. They are aquatic insects. ... Mayflies are members of the insect order Ephemeroptera. Adult mayflies live a very short time.

What is a mayfly classified as?

Mayflies. Ephemeroptera is a group of 2,000 insect species commonly known as mayflies. They are considered to be part of the clade Uniramia which includes silverfish and dragonflies, among others. Ephemeroptera and Odonata are the only extant orders of winged insects in the infraclass Paleoptera.

Is a mayfly an Fishfly?

Woodchucks and groundhogs are interchangeable terms in the Midwest, and, in Michigan, the insect that the rest of the country knows as the mayfly is called a fishfly. ... The term 'fishfly' actually names another entirely different group of insects, the Corydalidae, or dobson flies.”