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.
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.
Troutnut on Jan 6, 2008January 6th, 2008, 4:29 pm EST
I'll be driving by there sort of on my way to Minneapolis tomorrow. I've been home visiting my parents in Wisconsin for the holidays, and in the morning I'm flying back to Fairbanks, Alaska, where I'm going to grad school.
Jason Neuswanger, Ph.D.
Troutnut and salmonid ecologist