It may not always fly, guess that's just a mayfly in the ointment.

它可能不总是飞，我猜那只是个掉在药膏里蜉蝣吧。

Now barely 100 people had seen that invitation.The Mayfly Man only saw five women.

差不多有100人收到这请帖 而蜉蝣男只5个女人。

The mayfly said, Come play here. It is such a happy place.

蜉蝣说，来这里玩吧。这是一个快乐地方。

Some 180m years ago, during the early part of the Jurassic period, this site was a lake where mayflies lived and swarmed to mate, as they do today, providing, as a side-effect, a feast for local insectivores.

大1.8亿年前，在侏罗纪早期，这个地方是一个湖泊，蜉蝣生活在那里，成群交配，就像今天一样，同时也为当地食虫动物提供一场盛宴。

Occasionally she came to a spot where independent worlds of ephemerons were passing their time in mad carousal, some in the air, some on the hot ground and vegetation, some in the tepid and stringy water of a nearly dried pool.

有时在她经过地方，无数蜉蝣在自成一体世界里狂飞乱舞，度过它们时光，有些在空中，有些在热烘烘地上和草丛中，有些在一个几近干涸水塘温热粘稠水中。

Mayflies can sometimes default to parthenogenesis if there are no males available, which is especially handy because they've only got a day or so to reproduce before dying.

蜉蝣在没有雄性存在条件下可以转为孤雌生殖，这非常方便，因为它们在死亡前只有一天时间进行繁殖。

Jonathan Small, today's substitute wedding photographer, known to us as the Mayfly Man.

乔纳森·斯莫尔 今天替补婚礼摄影师 我们称之为蜉蝣男。

That was enough time for 185,055 generations of mayfly-which live as little as a day-to come and go.

这相当于蜉蝣繁衍18.5055万代时间——蜉蝣寿命只有一天。

So those non-eating mayflies are still animals because their evolutionary histories trace back to that original animal ancestor.

所以那些不吃东西蜉蝣仍然是动物，因为它们进化史可以追溯到最初动物祖先。

But the mayflies made the flight, which may fly in May, may fly in the face of those who may fly in a way to try to make them fly away.

但是蜉蝣可能在5月乱飞，它可能飞到那些试图赶走它们人面前。

Well, it isn't really, because, as any trout may tell you, the mayfly lives a double life.

其实并非如此任何鳟鱼都告诉你蜉蝣过着双重生活。

Also abundant were mayflies and caddis flies. These invertebrates are indicators of a healthy aquatic ecosystem.

也有大量蜉蝣和石蛾。这些无脊椎动物是健康水生生态系统标志。

Some animals only do these things for part of their life, like mayflies that feast as larvae, but lack mouths and guts as adults!

有些动物只在它们生命一部分时间里做这些事情，比如蜉蝣，它们在幼虫时期大快朵颐，但成年后却没有嘴和内脏！

One day during the hot summer, a mayfly flew by and alighted on a leaf of the oak tree.

在一个炎热夏日，一只蜉蝣飞落到一片橡树。

Mayflies come out of rivers or streams where they develop to mate.

蜉蝣从河流或溪流中孵化出来进行交配。

The appearance of the mayfly in spring is an astonishing sight, but it doesn't last long.

春天里蜉蝣出现蔚为壮观不过这不持续很久。

In North America, more than 150 different types of mayflies are used for making lures.

在北美有一百五十多种蜉蝣可以被用作诱饵。

No. I live much longer than you do. The mayfly nodded and asked, Really? Then, are you happy now?

不是，我比你活得要久得多。蜉蝣点点头问，真吗？那么，你现在幸福吗？

Of course, people can hope the mayflies will chance direction on the wing, or just buzz off because they can surely bug you.

当然，人们可以希望蜉蝣能飞到其他地方，或者干脆远离，因为它们肯定让你感到讨厌。

Then the mayfly smiled and said, I am very happy, too. Although I get to live only one day, it doesn't matter.

然后，蜉蝣笑着说，我也很幸福。虽然我只能活一天，但没有关系。