Here are two particularly crep pictures of what may well be a Yellow Spotted Sedge Philopotamus montanus which had a little too much time in the freezer - a reminder of the need to dedicate a little time if you want a decent photo rather than crowbarring it into a busy day.
Only worthwhile as a record of an early hatch from a small Teifi trib, the Nant Morw, collected on Feb 23rd, one of two I saw , air temp an unseasonal 14 °C

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Hi', DB. They certainly look the part. You have been very lucky to find them as their flight period is usually high summer, July until the end of the season. Feb is early even for Polycentropodidae, May to Sept, which are a bit similar. ja

Hi jada,
Checked it with Ian Wallace who confirmed it. He reckons it's one of the first on the wing.


I've got a fair bit of reference work on sedge pupae but not on the adults unfortunately so I checked the Google images which came up with a good page here where it gives a flight period starting in January. This differs from my FSC caddis guide which gives a summer flight as you say.

Other Google images are dated February, albeit from the Channel Islands so apparently it's not such a rarity as I first thought (for some reason Flickr hyperlinks behave in a very strange way, you have to click the top title to get there)


While on the sedge topic I saw three grannom - the all too forgettably named Brachycentrus subnubilis on the Teifi yesterday so spring must be coming.

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I took this picture at Moidart in May a few years ago. It shows the barring on the antennae pretty well.



This is where it was taken which also has a better picture of the fly

http://www.ftscotland.co.uk/angling/...ge_001.jpg.kmz

You will need Google Earth installed to see it and clicking on the icon opens up the full picture.

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