Pale dun
Ephemerella dorothea
The pale dun is a small mayfly from North America. It belongs to a family called the spiny crawler mayflies. Like all mayflies, it grows up underwater and then flies off for a short grown-up life.
Lives in
North America, near streams and rivers
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. Mayflies cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
The grown-ups do not eat at all. Their young live underwater in streams.
How fast is it?
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Pale dun about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
A dun is the name for a mayfly that can already fly but is not quite grown up yet.
2
There are two kinds of it, and one of them is called infrequens, which means not often seen.
3
Mayflies are the only insects that change their skin once more after they have wings.
you asked
Most asked questions about Pale dun
?Does the pale dun bite?
No. Mayflies cannot bite or sting, and the grown-ups do not even eat.
?Where does the pale dun live?
In North America, near streams and rivers.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Ephemerella dorothea
- Named by
- Needham, 1908
- Group
- Other insects
- Family
- Ephemerellidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Ephemeroptera > Ephemerellidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Ephemerella dorothea (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 Bob Henricks from Charlottesville, United States. CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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