Posts Tagged: mayfly

Getting the Drift

It's exciting to see a son follow in the footsteps of his father: soon there will be more than one Hammock with a Ph.D. at the University of California, Davis. UC Davis doctoral candidate Bruce Graham Hammock, whose father, Bruce Dupree Hammock, is a...

Bruce Graham Hammock at the Observation Basin in Kings Canyon National Park, a large fishless basin where much of his research occurred.

Bruce Graham Hammock at the Observation Basin in Kings Canyon National Park, a large fishless basin where much of his research occurred.

Oh, the Critters We Overlook

Oh, the critters we overlook. If you have flowering artichokes, expect to see honey bees, bumble bees, carpenter bees, leafcutter bees and syrphid flies foraging on them. And a few spiders waiting for dinner. Don't expect to see a mayfly. The mayfly...

Mayfly, from the family Baetidae, rests on a flowering artichoke. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Mayfly, from the family Baetidae, rests on a flowering artichoke. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Long tail of the mayfly, family Baetidae. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Long tail of the mayfly, family, Baetidae. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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