[
UK
/mˈeɪflaɪ/
]
NOUN
- slender insect with delicate membranous wings having an aquatic larval stage and terrestrial adult stage usually lasting less than two days
How To Use mayfly In A Sentence
- Most manufactured pop artists have the sort of career longevity that would cause a mayfly to snigger.
- Many mayfly species are clumsy swimmers at best, and combine that with shucking their outer nymph skin, they become a flailing treat for the waiting trout.
- Every day the sun sets behind blurred clouds of stonefly, caddis, midge or mayfly dancing against the horizon.
- Some are fishing inland lakes for splakes and brook trout and using mayfly wigglers, splakes, maggots & waxworms.
- My mind was made up, come June 16th I would be targeting river Teme barbel with some weighted Richard Walker mayfly nymphs.
- Though they're often dubbed "mayflies," because they hatch during the month of May, this insect is actually a caddis and not a mayfly. Aspen Times - Top Stories
- Every day the sun sets behind blurred clouds of stonefly, caddis, midge or mayfly dancing against the horizon.
- There were prolific hatches of mayfly all over the lake for most days during the week.
- Mayfly hatches appeared to be sparse but trout were still taking artificial mayflies.
- There were fair hatches of olives and duckfly, with hatches of mayfly in a few places too.