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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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With a bit of help from the microscope, this specimen keys clearly and unsurprisingly to Hydropsyche.
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Updates from July 3, 2009
Closeup insects by Bnewell from Glacier National Park in Montana
Mites are quite beautiful when viewed with magnification. Some get large like the middle photo which is of a red mite about the size of a pea.
Updates from June 19, 2009
Updates from June 18, 2009
Closeup insects by Bnewell from Murphy Lake in Montana
This fragile nymph is easily damaged during sampling making identification more difficult.
Alaska Range and Denali views from the Parks Highway in May 2009
By Troutnut on May 21st, 2009
The Parks is always a spectacular drive, but it was especially stunning on this drive back to Fairbanks from Homer.
Photos by Troutnut from Parks Highway in Alaska
Updates from May 9, 2009
Closeup insects by Bnewell from the Big Thompson River in Montana
I collected several live specimens of nymphs and reared them to the imago stage. They were C. reticulata. The interesting thing is they were collected in May and were emerging along with Rhithrogena (March Brown). This seems to be an overlooked hatch since in some rivers it emerges very early, before runoff.