Can anyone help, I have tried to ID and came up with a Pale Watery only problem is a PW has 2 tails this has 3


Sorry about quality of pic

She is - without any doubt whatsoever - a BWO, sometimes called 'the sherry spinner' Serratella ignita carrying her distinctive green egg ball.

Nice shots of the egg sphere actually.


There was a thread on the subject last month: Blue winged olive thread


P.S. Welcome to the Forum.

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Hi Ephemerella,
Thanks for sorting that out for me, I sort of only had the idea that BWO were only fond on chalk streams but having checked up in a few books I see that there are quite a common species. as you can see from my log in name the fly was seen on the R. Clwyd in North Wales.

Having looked at "Trout Fly Recognition" JG & "Matching the Hatch" POR I take it that this is a B-W-O Male Spinner