Tiny Baetis mayflies are perhaps the most commonly encountered and imitated by anglers on all American trout streams due to their great abundance, widespread distribution, and trout-friendly emergence habits.
I'm confident this dun belongs to septentrionalis, because her legs are just too long for any other Ephemerellid, and her unusual mid-dorsal stripe matches those of two easily identified nymphs I collected some miles downstream.
This really pretty mayfly was in kind of bad shape when I found it crippled on the surface, and bouncing around in my container with a bunch of green drakes didn't help.
This mayfly was collected from the West Branch of the Delaware River in New York on June 1st, 2007 and added to Troutnut.com by Troutnut on June 4th, 2007.