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05-07-2008, 10:08 PM
|  | Wild Member | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Birmingham
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| | | Mayfly Identification
I just remembered i took this photo last july of this Mayfly on my pond and I have never been sure which one it is?
A Pond Olive Maybe?   |
06-07-2008, 08:00 AM
| | Wild Member | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Usually found near water. (South Somerset)
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| | | re: Mayfly Identification
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Originally Posted by Bouncytigger  A Pond Olive Maybe? | Probably, they are the comonest garden pond mayfly. Looks like a spent female.
But it could also be a lake olive, how big is your pond!
Andy |
06-07-2008, 08:49 AM
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| | | Re: Mayfly Identification
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Originally Posted by AndyC Probably, they are the comonest garden pond mayfly. Looks like a spent female.
But it could also be a lake olive, how big is your pond!
Andy | Thanks Andy
Doubt if its a lake olive
The pond in question ( I have two) is only 46cm 18inchs deep and its preformed it's 50gallon so POND olive i would think it is! 
She seemed to sit on the water for some time about ten minutes so i guess she was laying eggs? |
07-07-2008, 09:04 AM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: North Yorkshire
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| | | Re: Mayfly Identification
Im afraid the photo is to blurred to get an ID, there are several species that occur in ponds, its a large family and wing veination is often needed for correct ID
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07-07-2008, 04:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Dogghound Im afraid the photo is to blurred to get an ID, there are several species that occur in ponds, its a large family and wing veination is often needed for correct ID | Sorry about that Dogghound
Not one of my best i know
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