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If they appear at all, look for freshwater jellyfish during the hottest part of
late summer in local still water quarries and lakes. |
One might say that mayflies are the kings of ephemerality, so much so they belong to the insect order Ephemeroptera. Yet as far as I am concerned, the true champs of fugaciousness are freshwater jellyfish.
They can be here one minute, gone the next. Or be in this lake one year and then never again. They are hard to even see in murky water. The high heat of August is when I look for them but many years, that's all I do is search in vain.
In Mead's Quarry Lake at the nature center, 2015 was a big bloom year. So much so that local newsmen Jim Matheny with WBIR and Alan Williams with WVLT filed independent reports about their ephemeral existence.
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Searching for freshwater jellyfish, 2013
Freshwater jellyfish found in 2013
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| Freshwater jellyfish. Photo by Chuck Cooper, 2015 |
Ijams' staffer Sammi Stoklosa, 2015
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| WBIR's Jim Matheny holding his recently created "Matheny Rig" for underwater video |
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