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Owlfly? - Hexagenia limbata

Owlfly? - Hexagenia limbata
Hale Ponds, Yuma County, Colorado, USA
June 8, 2015
Size: 1-2 cm.
I actually have no idea what this creature is though the length of the antennae would seem to suggest an owlfly (but the shape of the antennae tips argue otherwise?). I was stunned to look into the grass and find it, utterly dismayed when it seemingly vanished into the ether. The habitat was knee-high wet grass near a pond and a cottonwood riparian zone in what is otherwise arid grassland with some sage and yucca.

Moved
Moved from Mayflies.

Hexagenia limbata
Hi Steven,

I believe this to be a Hexagenia limbata subimago or imago It is clinging to the grass blades upside down with its middle and hind legs. So, you are seeing a ventral (rather than dorsal) view of it, and what appeared to you to be antennae, are actually its fore legs, which mayflies of genus Hexagenia characteristically hold extended in that fashion.

cool shot from a very rare angle; male imago ?heptageniid
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