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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 desktop background was created from a picture of this Nigronia serricornis Hellgrammite Larva. |
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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 desktop background was created from a picture of this Female Epeorus vitreus Mayfly Spinner. |
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I found this lone Hexagenia atrocaudata dun fluttering by herself on the surface of a small, still stretch of river one evening as I paddled home from fishing for smallmouths in the warm August weather. This desktop background was created from a picture of this Female Hexagenia atrocaudata Mayfly Dun. |
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This desktop background was created from a picture of this Nigronia serricornis Hellgrammite Larva. |
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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'm not sure of the species of this female spinner, and unfortunately I never found the associated males or duns to aid in identification. The egg-laying flight and fall of fairly large clouds of these females caused good rises of choosy trout for a week or so around early July on a large, cold spring creek in the northwoods. There is a distinctive stripe down the female's back, identical to that on this specimen collected a month later. This desktop background was created from a picture of this Female Ephemerellidae Mayfly Spinner. |
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View from the Elliott Highway not far north of Fairbanks, on my way up to the Dalton. This desktop background was created from this picture. |