Why do mayflies lay their eggs en masse on dry asphalt roads? Water-imitating polarized light reflected from asphalt attracts Ephemeroptera.

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• Publication year

  1998

• Venue

  Journal of Experimental Biology

• Publication date

  1998-08-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  PMID 9662498
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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