Speckled dun
The speckled dun is a small mayfly from North and Central America. Its babies grow up in water. The grown-ups have a very short life, and on the back of their body they have pale marks shaped like the letter W.
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Fun facts
You can tell it from its cousins by a pale W-shaped mark on its body. Often there are similar marks on other parts of its tail end too.
It lives in all of Mexico and in many parts of the United States.
Grown-up mayflies do not eat. They only live long enough to find a partner and lay eggs.
Most asked questions about Speckled dun
?What does a speckled dun eat?
The grown-ups do not eat at all. The babies feed in the water.
?Where does the speckled dun live?
In Mexico, Central America and the northern and southwestern United States.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Callibaetis pictus
- Group
- Other insects
- Family
- Baetidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Ephemeroptera > Baetidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Callibaetis pictus (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by NathanScientific. CC0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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