LA CROSSE - U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials are recruiting "citizen scientists" to gather field data to help better predict when millions of the mayflies will swarm the banks of the Mississippi River.
A website and smartphone apps have been developed to allow volunteers to gather and submit field observations.
A fisheries biologist with the agency tells the La Crosse Tribune (http://bit.ly/1H0YtSv ) that the technology will allow those with little training to record standardized observations that will be uploaded to public databases available to scientists.
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