Desktop Backgrounds
I've taken a few of my favorite pictures and made them into nice desktop backgrounds. It's really easy to set one of these as your background. Just click the link closest to your screen resolution () below a picture to save it to your hard drive. Then (if you're using Windows XP) right-click on your desktop, select "Properties," go to the "Desktop" tab, hit the "Browse" button, select the image from wherever you just saved it, and click "Apply" and "Okay".
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| This pretty little dun was part of a sparse midsummer evening hatch on a large Catskill river. I could not identify it by following a species key step by step, but I tentatively keyed it to the genus Nixe, and based on distribution maps and physical descriptions the most likely species is Nixe inconspicua. This desktop background was created from a picture of this Male Nixe inconspicua Mayfly Dun. |
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| I went to great comical lengths to swipe this spinner from the air with a little aquarium net I carry with me while I'm fishing. Siphloplecton basale spinners fly fast and high over the riffles, and there are never very many of them, so they're difficult to catch. This desktop background was created from a picture of this Male Siphloplecton basale Mayfly Spinner. |
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| A thick mating swarm of Tricorythodes mayfly spinners hovers over a cool Catskill tailwater one early fall morning. View the picture full-size and you'll be able to make out the wings and tails on most of those little white dots. This was one of many such clouds visible all up and down the river. The mayflies were impressive, but the trout did not hold up their end of the bargain -- there was not a rise in sight. This desktop background was created from a picture of Tricorythodes. |
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| I got several really nice pictures of this spinner. I also collected a female on the same trip. This desktop background was created from a picture of this Male Isonychia bicolor Mayfly Spinner. |
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| I collected this female together with a male. This desktop background was created from a picture of this Female Isonychia bicolor Mayfly Spinner. |
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| This Isonychia bicolor nymph from the Catskills displays the prominent white stripe sometimes characteristic of its species. This is the first such specimen I've photographed, because members of the same species in the Upper Midwest have a more subdued stripe (and were once thought to be a different species, Isonychia sadleri). The striking coloration on this eastern nymph is more appealing. This desktop background was created from a picture of this Isonychia bicolor Mayfly Nymph. |
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| This is my favorite underwater picture so far. It shows a bunch of Simuliidae (black fly) larvae clinging to a rock and swinging in the fast current. There are also at least four visible mayfly nymphs, probably in the family Baetidae. This desktop background was created from this underwater picture. |
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| I got several really nice pictures of this spinner. I also collected a female on the same trip. This desktop background was created from a picture of this Male Isonychia bicolor Mayfly Spinner. |
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| This desktop background was created from a picture of this Pedicia albivitta True Fly Larva. |
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| This desktop background was created from a picture of this Female Epeorus vitreus Mayfly Spinner. |
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