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.
Apart from the nothing-working-at-all error, there was a small problem that caused errors only on specific pages on the site. I tracked that one down and fixed it, too.
Everything should be working normally there now.
Jason Neuswanger, Ph.D.
Troutnut and salmonid ecologist