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Millcreek has attached these 6 pictures to aid in identification. The message is below.
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Epeorus longimanus. 10 mm excluding cerci.
Epeorus longimanus. 10 mm excluding cerci.
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Epeorus longimanus. 10 mm excluding cerci.
Epeorus longimanus. 10 mm excluding cerci.
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Siphlonurus sp. 9 mm excluding cerci.
Siphlonurus sp. 9 mm excluding cerci.
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Siphlonurus sp. 9 mm excluding cerci.
Siphlonurus sp. 9 mm excluding cerci.
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Ameletus sp. 15 mm excluding cerci.
Ameletus sp. 15 mm excluding cerci.
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Ameletus sp. 15 mm excluding cerci.
Ameletus sp. 15 mm excluding cerci.
MillcreekMarch 8th, 2015, 11:45 am
Healdsburg, CA

Posts: 356
The Russian River is starting to pick up in terms of critters. First is Epeorus longimanus, followed by a Siphlonurus sp. Last are a couple of Ameletus sp.

Any ideas about the specific name of the Siphlonurus sp. would be greatly appreciated.
OldredbarnMarch 17th, 2015, 10:50 am
Novi, MI

Posts: 2608
Who said we haven't been visited by aliens?! Those first two are for sure visitors from somewhere else...It's not "The truth is out there", it's "The truth is hiding in our rivers"...:)

Spence

Nice photos! Thanks!
"Even when my best efforts fail it's a satisfying challenge, and that, after all, is the essence of fly fishing." -Chauncy Lively

"Envy not the man who lives beside the river, but the man the river flows through." Joseph T Heywood
MillcreekMarch 18th, 2015, 2:12 pm
Healdsburg, CA

Posts: 356
It's a good deal more likely that they see us as aliens. They've been around a good deal longer and probably look on us as the bipedal pinkies who periodically bother them.:)

Nice photos! Thanks!


You're welcome.
Jmd123March 18th, 2015, 10:25 pm
Oscoda, MI

Posts: 2611
Hey, Heptageniids are cool and they know it...

Nice photos of some very pretty creastures, once agin!

Jonathon
No matter how big the one you just caught is, there's always a bigger one out there somewhere...
OldredbarnMarch 19th, 2015, 1:27 am
Novi, MI

Posts: 2608
It's a good deal more likely that they see us as aliens.


No doubt! :)

Spence
"Even when my best efforts fail it's a satisfying challenge, and that, after all, is the essence of fly fishing." -Chauncy Lively

"Envy not the man who lives beside the river, but the man the river flows through." Joseph T Heywood
HansoloJune 4th, 2016, 2:28 pm
Posts: 2Just bought house on Russian river. Love seeing mayflies hugging the doorframes in the early mornings. Reminds me of the east coast where I used to fly fish the Farmington and housatonic year-round.

When gardening I see insects in the dirt I've never seen before anywhere. They look like mayfly nymphs. They are anywhere from a millimeter to an inch long. They look like all-brown versions of Baetis nymphs, skinny, compact, perhaps 2 tails. They crawl over rocks, my planters, the dirt, anywhere.

Are there such things as terrestrial mayfly nymphs that live their entire lives close to rivers but on land?!?

If so, what variety are they? I want to create a ceramic address/nameplate at bottom of my driveway with a sketch of one of these things. Thanks.
CrenoJune 4th, 2016, 3:21 pm
Grants Pass, OR

Posts: 305
Hansolo - my wife once said earwigs looked like mayfly nymphs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earwig

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