Other spawning animals which are semelparous include mayflies, squid, octopus, smelt, capelin and some amphibians.
The shadow darner naiad feeds on a wide variety of aquatic insects, such as mosquito larvae, other aquatic fly larvae, mayfly larvae, and freshwater shrimp.
Consequently, dragonflies, mayflies, caddisflies and other water-seeking species actually prefer to mate, settle, swarm and oviposit upon these surfaces than available water bodies.
Mayflies are famed for their short adult life.
Their main diets consist of small flies, midges, mayflies, and moths.
At some point bee-eaters have been recorded eating beetles, mayflies, stoneflies, cicadas, termites, crickets and grasshoppers, mantises, true flies and moths.
Young mooneyes tend to feed in more benthic regions, eating immature caddisflies, mayflies, midges, corixids, and plecopterans.
Biotic index surveys report mayfly and stonefly nymphs, caddis fly larvae, dragonfly and damselfly nymphs and crayfish.
