Quill

[blueheron]

From the Poconos, Quill gordon?

 

[The_Sasquatch]

I'm by far no expert in bugs and such, but this doesn't look like a QG-at least the ones I've seen in NCPA. Maybe a red quill?

 

[JackM]

Seems too small for QG. Rusty Spinner!

 

[sandfly]

red quill spinner
3 tails is a Hendrickson---2 tails would be a quill Gordon, red quill, or blue quill There are 2 red quills one 3 tail (Hendrickson) and one (Epouris).

 

[pcray1231]

Cept, unless I'm blind, that thing has 3 tails....

 

[sandfly]

there for red spinner..its a hendrickson spinner 3 tails

 

[blueheron]

I didn't see that little third wisp when it was on my thumb, pretty sure it had two wide splayed tails, not quite a spinner but dangerously close. That could be the back of the leg in the close-up.

 

[ryguyfi]

I see 3 tails and he's flipping you the middle one for catching him!

 

[JackM]

OK, this frustrates me. It looks like a #16 rusty spinner. What more do we need to know? In other words: Quis magis operor nos postulo scio

 

[blueheron]

I learned the latin names for shrubbery as a lad and it turned me off of the proper pursuit of piscatorial pronouns, so I just threw a size 12 brown biot body with light dun wing dry and called it a day. Apparently my thumb is bigger than you give credit for, when I'm done tying cicadas or I start my friday night beer binge, whichever comes first, I'll post some additional views of the quill and the predator that was dining on them.

 

[gutcutter]

JackM wrote:
...looks like a #16 rusty spinner. What more do we need to know? In other words: Quis magis operor nos postulo scio

What is the extra work involved with calling it a Ep. subvaria female imago?
A rusty spinner would be a great imitation
But, this is supposed to be a Hatch and Entomology Forum, so the answers provided and the disputes that followed should suffice.

 

[blueheron]

Alright done tying and half way through the binge, done my first, but I'm not here to debate, I just like fish and bugs. And Ry, I practice catch and release bugging, I put that male quill on a bush streamside.

 

[JackM]

Sorry, I was just having fun. It probably does have a proper latin name.

 

[blueheron]

Never be sorry for having fun, there's not fun in the world as it is.

 

[Chaz]

HEndrickson, the smaller fly looks like a blue quill.

 

[crepuscular]

Leptophlebia spinner. Likely L. cupida, but I cant be sure about species. Definitely not an ephemerellid (red quill, hendrickson etc). The hindwing does not have the shallow depression behind the angulated projection along the leading edge.