The giant Salmonflies of the Western mountains are legendary for their proclivity to elicit consistent dry-fly action and ferocious strikes.
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.
This arthropod was collected from Wetlands in Glacier National Park in Montana on July 4th, 2009 and added to Troutnut.com by Bnewell on June 26th, 2011.