The Danube Delta Journal
Insects of the Danube Delta and Dobrogea
The small lives of the reeds, the river and the steppe, starting with the long tailed mayfly.
Species notes
Insects of the Danube Delta
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Long Tailed Mayfly (Palingenia longicauda): a Few Hours of Life on the Danube
Three years in the riverbed, a few hours in the air: the largest mayfly in Europe, once thought lost, swarms again in the Danube...
More wildlife
The rest of the fauna
Species from our checklist: where and when to see them in the Danube Delta and Dobrogea.
Golden jackals, sousliks, horses and the other mammals you may meet.
Pond turtles and tortoises, green lizards and meadow vipers, and the frogs that fill the spring nights.
From the mass emergence of the long tailed mayfly to the small life of the reeds.
The fish of the Danube Delta and the Black Sea, and the people who live from them.
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