FlaFly 0 Report post Posted April 10, 2016 Subspecies = Another case of lumpers vs. splitters, Joel. Generally one finds greater diversity where there is the greatest diversity of habitat types (aquatic ones in this case). Florida has very limited habitat diversity so I'd guess it has fewer species. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Taxon 0 Report post Posted April 11, 2016 To be fair, it may need stating that Mayfly Central currently lists (649) species of mayflies found in N. America, only (9) of which have recognized subspecies:Anthopotamus neglectus disjunctusAnthopotamus neglectus neglectusCaenis diminuta diminutaCallibaetis ferrugineus ferrugineusCallibaetis ferrugineus hageniDrunella grandis flavitinctaDrunella grandis grandisDrunella grandis ingensEphemerella dorothea dorotheaEphemerella dorothea infrequensMaccaffertium mediopunctatum arwiniMaccaffertium mediopunctatum mediopunctatumMaccaffertium mexicanum integrumMaccaffertium mexicanum mexicanumMaccaffertium terminatum placitumMaccaffertium terminatum terminatumTimpanoga hecuba hecubaTimpanoga hecuba pacifica http://www.flyfishingentomology.com/Mayfly%20Species%20Distribution%20Maps.htm Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skeet3t 0 Report post Posted April 13, 2016 Wish my memory was better, but I recall seeing a picture of weather radar that had a mayfly hatch so massive that it showed up on the radar. Need to see if I can Google it. Was very impressive. Here it is with several items in response to the search: https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=mayfly+hatch+on+radar&ei=UTF-8&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-001 That is a lot of bugs! Casting a fly would be useless. Can you imagine the competition that would work against your fly? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Taxon 0 Report post Posted November 30, 2016 Hi John- At the risk of answering a rhetorical question, no I can not; it simply boggles my imagination. :-) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites