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27 December. (2022-12-27) –. 28 December 2022. (2022-12-28) Mayflies is a two-part British television drama series starring Martin Compston and Tony Curran, adapted by Andrea Gibb from Andrew O'Hagan 's 2020 novel of the same name, and directed by Peter Mackie Burns.
Mayflies "hatch" (emerge as adults) from spring to autumn, not necessarily in May, in enormous numbers. Some hatches attract tourists. Fly fishermen make use of mayfly hatches by choosing artificial fishing flies that resemble them. One of the most famous English mayflies is Rhithrogena germanica, the fisherman's "March brown mayfly". [3]
Although not to the same extent as the larvae of mayflies and caddisflies, hellgrammites are intolerant of polluted waters and may have potential to be used as indicators of water quality. [20] As the adults are strongly attracted to lights, entomologists and collectors often use black light and mercury-vapor light traps to capture them. [9]
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The last American light bulb: GE stops making its iconic bulb in the U.S. Sarah Gilbert. Updated July 14, 2016 at 6:09 PM. GE and its products are part of the American iconography. Its founder was ...
General Electric was created in 1892 when Thomas Edison’s Edison Electric Company merged with Thomson-Houston.GE was heavily involved in the electrification of railways in the late 1880s and by the turn of the century was manufacturing everything related to electrification from industrial electric motors to light bulbs and locomotives.
Mecoptera (from the Greek: mecos = "long", ptera = "wings") is an order of insects in the superorder Holometabola with about six hundred species in nine families worldwide. . Mecopterans are sometimes called scorpionflies after their largest family, Panorpidae, in which the males have enlarged genitals raised over the body that look similar to the stingers of scorpions, and long beaklike
Like mayflies, stoneflies and dragonflies, but to a somewhat lesser extent, caddisflies are an indicator of good water quality; they die out of streams with polluted waters. [17] They are an important part of the food web, both larvae and adults being eaten by many fish. The newly hatched adult is particularly vulnerable as it struggles to the ...