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Hi Steve
The images on the www look like it anyway. Thanks for
the id
Paul
--- Stephen Shaw <srshaw@dal.ca> wrote:
> Sounds like a phantom crane fly, Bittacomorpha
> claviceps (family
> Ptychopteridae).
> Steve
> Quoting Paul MacDonald <paulrita2001@yahoo.com>:
>
> > Hi All
> > This afternoon being cloudy and wet and not fit to
> > garden I went over to the river to sit and watch.
> When
> > the sun came out a fly something in the order of a
> > damsel fly came by. First I thought it was
> something
> > being blowing in the wind but then I realise it
> was
> > going againt the wind.
> > It was damsel fly size but all legs and not much
> of a
> > body. The legs were black with white stripes
> around
> > them. Pretty thing. Long - made it look like a
> bundle
> > of legs. Latter I saw several more.
> > The flies known to anglers as "Yellow Sallies" had
> > also started to hatch - only saw a couple of them
> > sitting on a branch. Prehaps they will deposit
> their
> > eggs this evening.
> > Also a mayfly with a claret body. The inspiration
> for
> > Mr Cowans popular fly "Dark Montreal" Good fish
> food.
> > Once after I caught a fish a fellow angler asked
> what
> > fly I had used. I replied my version of a
> Montreal. He
> > looked at it and said - Well at least one of the
> > suburbs!
> > Enjoy the Loon Count
> > Paul
> >
>
>
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