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Scientific Name Phryganea cinerea Habitat Standing and flowing waters. Seasonality Adults fly from June through to August. Identification

Adults are brown and the antennae have broad brown bands. Forewings have a dense setal covering and the hindwings are grey, darkening apically. In males, the circus is bifurcate and the ventral lobe is twice as long…

Adults are brown and the antennae have broad brown bands. Forewings have a dense setal covering and the hindwings are grey, darkening apically. In males, the circus is bifurcate and the ventral lobe is twice as long as the dorsal lobe (Wiggins, 1998).

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During the day, adults are clinging to rush stalks along the water's edge. In the evening, the adults begin mating and egg-laying activities. Females will fly thirty to forty feet up in the air and dive-bomb the…

During the day, adults are clinging to rush stalks along the water's edge. In the evening, the adults begin mating and egg-laying activities. Females will fly thirty to forty feet up in the air and dive-bomb the surface of the water, to lay eggs, sending up small splashes, mimicking rain (LaFontaine, 1983).

Read More + Conservation Relatively common. Diet Info Larvae feed on dead and living plant material and animal material, such as copepods and ostracods (Wiggins, 1996). Range This species range extends from eastern Alaska south to California, Utah, and Colorado, east to the Great Lakes states and Newfoundland (Wiggins, 1998).