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Lateral view of a Male Baetis (Baetidae) (Blue-Winged Olive) Mayfly Dun from Mystery Creek #43 in New York
Blue-winged Olives
Baetis

Tiny Baetis mayflies are perhaps the most commonly encountered and imitated by anglers on all American trout streams due to their great abundance, widespread distribution, and trout-friendly emergence habits.

Lateral view of a Psychodidae True Fly Larva from Mystery Creek #308 in Washington
This wild-looking little thing completely puzzled me. At first I was thinking beetle or month larva, until I got a look at the pictures on the computer screen. I made a couple of incorrect guesses before entomologist Greg Courtney pointed me in the right direction with Psychodidae. He suggested a possible genus of Thornburghiella, but could not rule out some other members of the tribe Pericomini.
27" brown trout, my largest ever. It was the sub-dominant fish in its pool. After this, I hooked the bigger one, but I couldn't land it.
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Female. Collected May 4, 2014.
Male. Collected May 4, 2014.
Male. Collected May 4, 2014.
Males. Collected May 4, 2014.
Millcreek
Healdsburg, CA

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Millcreek on Oct 13, 2014October 13th, 2014, 10:13 am EDT
Serratella micheneri nymphs are common in the Russian River from April through May. Most are found in glides with a substrate of large gravel and cobble in a moderate current. Usually found in large numbers on single rocks. I ID'd them to genus using Merritt, Cummins and Berg (2008) and to species with Allen and Edmunds "A Revision of the Genus Ephemerella (Ephemeroptera: Ephemerellidae). VI. The Subgenus Serratella in North America" (1963)http://www.ephemeroptera-galactica.com/pubs/pub_a/puballenr1963p583.pdf and Jacobus and McCafferty "Revisionary Contributions to North American Ephemerella and Serratella (Ephemeroptera: Ephemerellidae) (2003)http://www.ephemeroptera-galactica.com/pubs/pub_j/pubjacobusl2003p174.pdf.

Nymphs are 5-7 mm in length (excluding cerci).
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PaulRoberts
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Colorado

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PaulRoberts on Oct 13, 2014October 13th, 2014, 3:49 pm EDT
Wow! Pretty critters they are.
Millcreek
Healdsburg, CA

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Millcreek on Oct 13, 2014October 13th, 2014, 4:40 pm EDT
Paul-
Yeah, they are pretty little varmints and like a lot of animals that have a pattern that's broken up like this they're really well camouflaged when in their regular habitat and not in a petri dish. Hope to get some photos of them on rocks next year.
Have you seen these in Colorado? Apparently they've been reported there, as well as a number of other western states.
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