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.
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This one was surprisingly straightforward to identify. The lack of a sclerite at the base of the lateral hump narrows the field quite a bit, and the other options followed fairly obvious characteristics to Clostoeca, which only has one species, Clostoeca disjuncta.
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Updates from June 10, 2011
Videos by Troutnut from Gunnysack Creek in Alaska
Alaska Range twilight time lapse
I shot a picture every twenty seconds for a few hours as the sunlight faded over the Alaska Range above Black Rapids, and compressed them into this time lapse. It's amazing how much the mountains directly affect the clouds, and I never really appreciated it until I saw them in motion like this.
Photos by Troutnut from Gunnysack Creek, Miscellaneous Alaska, Coal Mine Road, the Delta River, and Ober Creek in Alaska
Updates from June 9, 2011
Closeup insects by Bnewell from the Touchet River in Washington
This specimen is close to Ameletus vernalis but the wing coloration is missing.
Partial solar eclipse of June 1, 2011, from Fairbanks, Alaska
By Troutnut on May 31st, 2011
Photos by Troutnut from the Tanana River in Alaska
