  {"id":9856,"date":"2013-12-04T08:35:06","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T14:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/?p=9856"},"modified":"2015-11-12T08:27:54","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T14:27:54","slug":"how-healthy-is-green-bay-the-mayflies-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/how-healthy-is-green-bay-the-mayflies-know\/","title":{"rendered":"How healthy is Green Bay? 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(Photos by Troye Fox)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Jerry Kaster\u2019s lifelong fascination with the mayfly could soon manifest itself in the most productive of ways: the successful re-establishment of an aquatic insect to the bay for which the animal was once named.<\/p>\n<p>The bay is Lake Michigan\u2019s Green Bay, and Kaster \u2013 an associate professor in 51ÁÔÆæ\u2019s School of Freshwater Sciences \u2013 may be one experiment away from determining how best to reintroduce the mayfly to the place where it once swarmed and reproduced in such epic proportions that it was known as the Green Bay Fly.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9859\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9859\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2013\/12\/mayfly_j2-2kssanu.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9859\" title=\"mayfly_j2\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2013\/12\/mayfly_j2-2kssanu.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2013\/12\/mayfly_j2-2kssanu.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2013\/12\/mayfly_j2-2kssanu-197x300.jpg 197w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9859\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The aquatic insect whose numbers were once such an important source of protein in Lake Michigan.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If Kaster succeeds and the mayfly returns to the bay in the numbers before industrial pollution in the 1950s nearly wiped it out, so will a host of other life forms \u2013 including the walleye and other fish.<\/p>\n<p>The disappearance of the insect, scientifically known as <em>Hexagenia<\/em>, has robbed the bay of what Kaster refers to as a once bustling \u201cwalleye factory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why he and graduate student Christopher Groff are focused not on the fish that inhabit the water column, but on the relatively overlooked benthic, or bottom, ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Getting to the bottom of the problem<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The lake bottom is where they hope trillions of mayfly nymphs will burrow successfully someday soon, on their way through a gestational period that will conclude, above water, with a mating ritual that demonstrates just what an important food source the mayflies represent.<\/p>\n<p>Mayflies spend all but about two days of their lives as nymphs burrowed in the bottom mud, but in those 48 hours as adults they congregate over the water, forming a swarm so large and thick that Doppler weather radars in the vicinity can mistake the hatch for a thunderstorm.<\/p>\n<p>The mayflies conclude their terrestrial existence by mating over the water, dropping fertilized eggs in the process. \u201cIt\u2019s a crazy event,\u201d Kaster says, noting that a large mayfly hatch can release around 350,000 tons of protein into the food chain, where it is a feast for fish, birds, turtles and frogs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLimnoforming\u201d is the word Kaster coined to describe the process he is using to determine whether the mud at the bottom of Green Bay \u2013 a soupy mixture due to the lack of sediment reworking by invertebrates stripped out by pollution \u2013 can be returned to a thickness that can physically support the burrows of mayfly nymphs.<\/p>\n<p>The idea behind limnoforming, he says, is that a biologically complex community can be rebuilt from the ground up \u2013 starting with the right \u201cpioneer\u201d organisms that would modify the bottom mud to benefit mayfly survival.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInvertebrate ecology is a largely overlooked, underrepresented part of the ecosystem, and it\u2019s extremely important to the healthy functioning of the rest of the system. What\u2019s living on the bottom drives production at higher levels,\u201d says Groff.<\/p>\n<p>Tending to the benthic ecosystem first, Kaster believes, will quicken the pace of remediation of the whole bay.<\/p>\n<p><strong>As the worm turns&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding: 10px;width: 250px;float: right;border-top: 1px solid #cca540;border-bottom: #cca540 1px solid\">\n<h5><em> \u201cThe public may view this as a nuisance,\u201d says Kaster, \u201cbut the ecological and economic benefits will far outweigh human inconvenience.\u201d<\/em><\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<p>Testing his theory involves not only the still-absent population of mayflies, but also another creature that should be inhabiting the bottom of the bay in greater numbers \u2013 tiny threadlike worms (aquatic cousins of earthworms) whose life cycles help thicken the mud.<\/p>\n<p>In their research, funded by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.noaa.gov\/\">National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration<\/a> (NOAA), Kaster and Groff are using thousands of Tubificidae worms harvested from the Kinnickinnic River in Milwaukee.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers then deploy custom-made \u201cworm condos\u201d \u2013 enclosed microcosms containing the soupy Green Bay mud infused with worms \u2013 to test their effectiveness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe mayfly nymphs need to be able to create a burrow in the sediment, and we need it firm enough to support that,\u201d says Groff, who grew up in Fond du Lac and earned his undergraduate degree in biological sciences from 51ÁÔÆæ. \u201cWe\u2019re also hoping the worms increase the available oxygen content in the sediment, especially given the hypoxia [low oxygen] in Green Bay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They are conducting a laboratory version of the experiment at the School of Freshwater Sciences as well.<\/p>\n<p>If the worms succeed, the next step will be introducing mayfly eggs, and if those hatch and nymphs grow, the mayfly could be on its way back \u2013 along with an ecologically healthy lake bottom to support the Green Bay food web.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, there is one potential mayfly in the ointment, so to speak: the public\u2019s response when the mayfly finally reclaims its nom de Green Bay Fly and trillions of them cover the landscape during mating season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe public may view this as a nuisance,\u201d says Kaster, \u201cbut the ecological and economic benefits will far outweigh human inconvenience.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The disappearance of the insect has robbed Lake Michigan&#8217;s Green Bay  of what 51ÁÔÆæ biologist Jerry Kaster refers to as a once bustling \u201cwalleye factory.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40008,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","uwm_wg_additional_authors":[]},"categories":[174,175],"tags":[],"section":[139,143],"display_categories":[],"related-coverage":[],"uwmnews-feed":[152],"class_list":["post-9856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-research","section-science-technology","section-water-environment","uwmnews-feed-freshwater-sciences"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How healthy is Green Bay? 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