Troutnut.com User 1molly (Fred Palmer)

This is one of my favorite stonefly pictures. I was playing around with holding my flash heads in different locations, and I got a neat lighting effect by holding one straight above the nymph's tank.

Acroneuria abnormis (Golden Stone) Stonefly Nymph from Mongaup Creek in New York

I didn't manage to collect a nymph, but here's the hollow shuck (

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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.) left over from an emerged dun, showing the basic pattern of the nymph.

This Ephemerella invaria sulphur dun got stuck in its shuck (

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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.) trying to emerge. This isn't exactly a "natural" pose for a photograph, but it kind of shows what an emerger pattern could look like.