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Mayflies Caddisflies Stoneflies

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 Epeorus pleuralis nymph tried to hatch into a dun while attached to this rock and apparently got stuck. This species is supposed to emerge from its nymphal shuck ( View Full Size Here's an underwater view of the pupal shucks of several already-emerged Brachycentrus numerosus caddisflies. Shuck: The shed exoskeleton left over when an insect molts into its next stage or instar. Most often it describes the last nymphal or pupal skin exited during emergence into a winged adult.) on the bottom of the stream and swim to the surface as a bedraggled dun. It seems more like this one was trying to crawl out onto a rock to emerge. The rock itself is covered with a thin layer of fast water in a riffle, and apparently it prevented the dun from making any headway. You can see the dun's eyes and a bit of the mesonotum (Mesonotum: The top of the insect mesothorax.) if you look closely. This desktop background was created from a picture of Epeorus pleuralis.

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