a couple of interesting picture of a LDO ? (female = greenish eyes ) could some one help in answering a couple of questions.
1. has she just deposited eggs
2. newly emerged and drying out
or
3. just drifted on to the stone and resting

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Nice images, but not of an LDO, no way, not even of the Baetid family, not with those large hindwings.

I don't have my books with me but I'd say Ecdyonurus; probably E. insignis although late in the year for them.

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Rithrogena Semicolorata, would be my guess, easker1

Male Autumn Dun (Ecdyonurus dispar) just hatched perhaps?

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I should have mentioned that the photo was taken around the end of September (sorry) it is probably a Oilve upright as they are the most common fly on the river and I have'nt come across any Ecdyonurus (Autum Dun, L Green Dun, L Brook Dun or Late March Brown) although as you can see I'm not too good at ID ing flies.

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Another vote for a newly hatched E.dispar - the Autumn Dun and it looks like a he not a she; you can just see the claspers under the tip of the abdomen

One oldbull you can trust ....hell he's got good eyes.

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Thanks for the help guys if it's a autumn Dun then that's another fly I can tick off for the R. Clwyd. I have had a check in pat O'Reilly's book Matching the hatch and it does say that they crawl out on to partly submerged stones I also noticed that J.R.Harris calls the a Ecdyonurus dispar the August Dun.

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Hi', CS, As the lads say, it's a gent, answers to the name of either August or Autumn dun; and even if it were a lady, it would have had to go through the change to the spinner stage before laying its eggs. The female spinner is one of the Great Red Spinners. Cheers, Jada

Thanks to all for putting me right
Paul

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