Turkey brown
The turkey brown is a dark brown mayfly from Europe, and it lives in Estonia too. It has see-through wings and three long, thin tails. It grows up underwater in stony streams and rivers.
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Fun facts
Its three tails can be longer than its whole body, up to 15 millimetres in males.
The not-quite-grown-up stage lives about 20 hours, and the grown-up only up to 3 days. Males rarely live more than one day.
The mother lays her eggs on the water surface, and they sink straight to the bottom.
When it rests, it holds its wings straight up over its back.
You can see the grown-ups from early April to the middle of September.
Most asked questions about Turkey brown
?How long does the turkey brown live?
Most of its life is spent underwater as a young one. The flying grown-up lives only up to 3 days.
?Does the turkey brown live in Estonia?
Yes. It lives in most of Europe, Estonia included.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Paraleptophlebia submarginata
- Group
- Other insects
- Family
- Leptophlebiidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Ephemeroptera > Leptophlebiidae
- Lives on
- Europe
Where the facts come from
- Paraleptophlebia submarginata (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 Hectonichus. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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