My name is Zephlebia and I've got to be the best looking mayfly
in my stream...
See the neat pattern on my body and legs? You can tell I'm a may
fly because of my three long tails and the leaf-shaped gills on the sides of my
body. If you looked very closely at my body near my tails you'd see that I have
pointy spines along my sides.
You might see me clinging to stones or a piece of wood if you
lift these out of a stream. I hold on to them so the flowing water doesn't wash
me away. I also eat the tiny plants that grow on the surfaces of sticks and
stones. You might have seen my cousin Austroclima who is a bit smaller than me
and doesn't have my pretty pattern. Both of us live in shady streams with clean
water, so please don't cut down the trees beside our streams, and please don't
tip dirty water down your drains.
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