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.
This is the first of it's family I've seen, collected from a tiny, fishless stream in the Cascades. The three species of this genus all live in the Northwest and are predators that primarily eat stonefly nymphs Merritt R.W., Cummins, K.W., and Berg, M.B. (2019).
Millcreek on Apr 10, 2015April 10th, 2015, 7:22 am EDT
Common in the Russian River. Usually found in small gravel, in shallow water. The nymphs were keyed out to family using Merritt, Cummins and Berg (2008) and to species using Allen and Edmunds "A Revision of the Genus Ephemerella (Ephemeroptera; Ephemerellidae) VII. The Subgenus Ephemerella in North America". http://www.ephemeroptera-galactica.com/pubs/pub_a/puballenr1965p244.pdf
These nymphs show considerable variation in coloring but maintain the same body shape and typical coloring of the sternites.
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