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Californian speckled Dunn

Callibaetis californicus (Baetidae)

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mayfly
Rhithrogena germanica Mayfly


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11 Comments

Hema  Shah
Hema Shah 10 years ago

thnx Reiko!!

RiekoS
RiekoS 10 years ago

Nice.

Hema  Shah
Hema Shah 10 years ago

:)

Sckel
Sckel 10 years ago

I found two little things similar to this and did not know what it was, now seeing this in its spotting, have good tip. Thank you. :)

Hema  Shah
Hema Shah 10 years ago

jellis amazzinn detective wok!! What a perfect Id? Congrats!i know you will be the one to save the world! :)

Jellis
Jellis 10 years ago

Oh and great shot

Jellis
Jellis 10 years ago

And yours is a female

Hema  Shah
Hema Shah 10 years ago

Jellis,a quick differentiating trick would be,the number of tails. This one has two tails .

Hema  Shah
Hema Shah 10 years ago

thanks Jellis. There seems to be an invasion of these! Never seen so many!

Jellis
Jellis 10 years ago

there are so many subspecies. this one comes up in Concord, Ephemeroptera Plecoptera Trichoptera but they don't have the same coloring. The ones that do look like that are from the east but you never know.
http://bugguide.net/node/view/199589/bgi...

Jellis
Jellis 10 years ago

mayfly

HemaShah
Spotted by
HemaShah

Concord, California, USA

Spotted on Sep 19, 2013
Submitted on Sep 19, 2013

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