{"id":225218,"date":"2026-06-22T20:40:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T20:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/225218\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T20:40:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T20:40:39","slug":"look-mayflies-swarm-put-in-bay-aquatic-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/225218\/","title":{"rendered":"LOOK: Mayflies swarm Put-in-Bay Aquatic Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">PUT-IN-BAY, Ohio (WOIO) &#8211; Mayflies have arrived at the Ohio Division of Wildlife\u2019s Put-in-Bay Aquatic Center on South Bass Island.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Ohio Division of Wildlife posted to social media showing the insects covering steps at the facility. The mayflies have likely appeared at other locations on the island as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Ohio Department of Natural Resources said the mayflies are a sign of good water quality in Lake Erie. The insects also provide food for fish.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The mayflies will be gone in a few days, according to ODNR.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WOIO. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PUT-IN-BAY, Ohio (WOIO) &#8211; Mayflies have arrived at the Ohio Division of Wildlife\u2019s Put-in-Bay Aquatic Center on South&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137,97816,97815,97817],"class_list":["post-225218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-lake-erie-water-quality","tag-mayflies-put-in-bay","tag-mayfly-swarm-ohio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}