Hex Mayflies
Hexagenia limbata
The famous nocturnal Hex hatch of the Midwest (and a few other lucky locations) stirs to the surface mythically large brown trout that only touch streamers for the rest of the year.
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This seems to be a young larva of Limnephilus. Although not clear in the picture, several ventral abdominal segments have chloride epithelia.
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I am trying to reach Shawnny3, in Pleasant Gap, Pa., to ask him if there is still a fish hatchery there. I was a Fish Comm. biologist in 1952, working out of that hatchery. The hatchery director at the time was a man named Jerry Zettle. He had a beautiful unmarried daughter, and, alas, I was just recently married! Alan Mark Fletcher, Ithaca, N. Y.