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Mayfly Species Timpanoga hecuba (Great Red Quill)

Taxonomic Navigation -?-
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
» Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
» Class Insecta (Insects)
» Order Ephemeroptera (Mayflies)
» Family Ephemerellidae (Hendricksons, Sulphurs, PMDs, BWOs)
» Genus Timpanoga
» Species hecuba (Great Red Quill)
Common Names
Timpanoga hecuba is not abundant enough, and its emergence not concentrated enough, to provide great hatches, but where it is locally abundant it creates fishable action because of its large size. It is one of the largest species in the Ephemerellidae family, being almost the size of Drunella grandis, the Western Green Drake.  

Where & When

Region: West
Time Of Year (?): July and August

Hatching Behavior

Time Of Day (?): Evening

Spinner Behavior

The duns may wait for several days before returning together as spinners, and in Knopp and Cormier say this can lead to fishable spinner falls.

Nymph Biology

Current Speed: Slow
Substrate: Silt

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