{"id":8300,"date":"2013-07-07T08:18:05","date_gmt":"2013-07-07T15:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=8300"},"modified":"2013-07-13T14:45:47","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T21:45:47","slug":"orgy-in-nelson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=8300","title":{"rendered":"Orgy in Nelson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I suspect that Saturday&#8217;s orgy in Nelson is an annual event. The participants are almost certainly mayflies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 2px 2px 4px 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-left: 8px; width: 270px; float: right; clear: left; color: #555555; background-color: #eeeeee; border: #dddddd 2px solid;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In the comments to a subsequent posting, <a title=\"Orgy swarm redux\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=8309\">Orgy swarm redux<\/a>, it was finally settled that these insects are caddisflies<\/span><span style=\"color: #555555;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Mayflies live as adults only for a few hours (a few species live for two days) and then they die. That short life is spent in group mating. The males start a mating dance by repeatedly flying upwards and then drifting downwards. Soon females join in and an orgy on the wing begins.<\/p>\n<p>I missed last evening&#8217;s grand event. Arlene Anderson watched it and sent me her pictures. Will the mayflies hold another orgy tonight? Probably not; maybe next year.<\/p>\n<p>The males start by flying into the wind. As with other insects that form mating balls, these mayflies have picked a marker, a tree, so as to maintain group cohesion.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8301\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/mayflymating003bsAA.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mayflies typically mate near the water where the eggs will be deposited. The Lake, of course, lies between the marker tree and the distant mountainside.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8302\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/mayflymating003asAA.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Arlene Anderson&#8217;s pictures are used with permission.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I suspect that Saturday&#8217;s orgy in Nelson is an annual event. The participants are almost certainly mayflies. In the comments to a subsequent posting, Orgy swarm redux, it was finally settled that these insects are caddisflies. Mayflies live as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=8300\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8300"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8307,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8300\/revisions\/8307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}