Not a trout Quiz-A bug Quiz

JAD	December 10th, 2010, 12:22 pm
Alexandria Pa Posts: 362	I took these pictures this summer What is IT. Wat ya think John
	They fasten red (crimson red) wool around a hook, and fix onto the wool two feathers which grow under a cock’s wattles, and which in colour are like wax. Radcliffe's Fishing from the Earliest Times,

Oldredbarn	December 10th, 2010, 12:35 pm
Novi, MI Posts: 2608	It's an alien!
	"Even when my best efforts fail it's a satisfying challenge, and that, after all, is the essence of fly fishing." -Chauncy Lively "Envy not the man who lives beside the river, but the man the river flows through." Joseph T Heywood

Taxon	December 10th, 2010, 1:44 pm
Site Editor Royse City, TX Posts: 1350	Hi John, I believe it to be the larva (caterpillar) of an Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly, Papilio glaucus.
	Best regards, Roger Rohrbeck www.FlyfishingEntomology.com

JAD	December 10th, 2010, 2:07 pm
Alexandria Pa Posts: 362	Thank you Roger That would be this
	They fasten red (crimson red) wool around a hook, and fix onto the wool two feathers which grow under a cock’s wattles, and which in colour are like wax. Radcliffe's Fishing from the Earliest Times,

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