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This is page 4 of streamside pictures of Insecta. Visit the main Insecta page for:
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69 Streamside Pictures of Insects:
StateNew York
LocationSchoharie Creek
Date TakenSep 7, 2006
Date AddedOct 4, 2006
AuthorTroutnut
CameraPENTAX Optio WPi
StateNew York
LocationBeaverkill River
Date TakenMay 7, 2005
Date AddedMar 25, 2006
AuthorTroutnut
CameraCanon EOS 20D
I found this little Paraleptophlebia dun along a Catskill stream, but not enough of her brethren were emerging to get the early-season trout to rise.
In this picture: Mayfly Genus Paraleptophlebia (Blue Quills & Mahogany Duns).
In this picture: Mayfly Genus Paraleptophlebia (Blue Quills & Mahogany Duns).
StateNew York
LocationBeaverkill River
Date TakenMay 7, 2005
Date AddedMar 25, 2006
AuthorTroutnut
CameraCanon EOS 20D
Giant Hexagenia limbata spinners leave ghostly trails around the glow of a full moon.
In this picture: Mayfly Species Hexagenia limbata (Hex).
In this picture: Mayfly Species Hexagenia limbata (Hex).
StateWisconsin
LocationNamekagon River
Date TakenJun 18, 2005
Date AddedJan 25, 2006
AuthorTroutnut
CameraOlympus C740UZ
This is Troutnut.com's first picture of a springtail, a type of six-legged, non-insect arthropod. It's riding on the surface film under the mayfly's left tail.
In this picture: Arthropod Class Collembola (Springtails), True Fly Family Chironomidae (Midges), and Mayfly Family Heptageniidae (March Browns, Cahills, Quill Gordons).
In this picture: Arthropod Class Collembola (Springtails), True Fly Family Chironomidae (Midges), and Mayfly Family Heptageniidae (March Browns, Cahills, Quill Gordons).
StateAlaska
LocationKuparuk River
Date TakenSep 4, 2007
Date AddedApr 22, 2011
AuthorTroutnut
CameraPENTAX Optio WPi
StateNew York
LocationNeversink River
Date TakenMay 12, 2007
Date AddedJun 5, 2007
AuthorTroutnut
CameraPENTAX Optio WPi
A lone fly rests upon a rock in the middle of a little brook trout stream that's catching the late afternoon sun.
In this picture: Insect Order Diptera (True Flies).
In this picture: Insect Order Diptera (True Flies).
StateWisconsin
LocationEighteenmile Creek
Date TakenJul 22, 2005
Date AddedFeb 8, 2006
AuthorTroutnut
CameraCanon EOS 20D
Two Ephemera simulans (Brown Drake) spinners hang from tree leaves along the river. It's worthwhile to look for these in afternoons during the Brown Drake hatch, because their presence may reveal the best place to fish in the evening.
In this picture: Mayfly Species Ephemera simulans (Brown Drake).
In this picture: Mayfly Species Ephemera simulans (Brown Drake).
StateWisconsin
LocationNamekagon River
Date TakenJun 11, 2005
Date AddedJan 25, 2006
AuthorTroutnut
CameraOlympus C740UZ
Several Isonychia bicolor nymphs had recently crawled out onto these rocks to emerge, leaving behind their telltale shucks (
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.).
In this picture: Mayfly Species Isonychia bicolor (Mahogany Dun).
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Here's an underwater view of the pupal shucks of several already-emerged Brachycentrus numerosus caddisflies.
In this picture: Mayfly Species Isonychia bicolor (Mahogany Dun).
StateNew York
LocationWest Branch of Owego Creek
Date TakenAug 9, 2006
Date AddedAug 10, 2006
AuthorTroutnut
CameraPENTAX Optio WPi
An early season stonefly nymph looking to hatch crawls across a snow-covered midstream boulder.
In this picture: Insect Order Plecoptera (Stoneflies).
In this picture: Insect Order Plecoptera (Stoneflies).
StateWisconsin
LocationNamekagon River
Date TakenMar 22, 2005
Date AddedJan 25, 2006
AuthorTroutnut
CameraOlympus C740UZ
Jargon Defined:
Dun: Mayflies have two adult stages. They first emerge from the water as duns (scientifically known as the subimago stage). They then molt into the spinner (imago) stage, in which they mate and die. Sometimes the word "dun" is confusingly used to refer to a brownish gray color in fly tying materials.
Nymphs: The juvenile, underwater stages of mayflies, stoneflies, dragonflies, and damselflies and other aquatic insects whose juvenile stages are covered by hard exoskeletons. The word can also refer to the fishing flies which imitate these creatures, in which case it is used as a blanket term for flies imitating any underwater stage of an invertebrate (except for crayfish and leeches).
Here's an underwater view of the pupal shucks of several already-emerged Brachycentrus numerosus caddisflies.
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