Salmonflies
Pteronarcys californica
The giant Salmonflies of the Western mountains are legendary for their proclivity to elicit consistent dry-fly action and ferocious strikes.
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This specimen keys pretty easily to Onocosmoecus, and it closely resembles a specimen from Alaska which caddis expert Dave Ruiter recognized as this genus. As with that specimen, the only species in the genus documented in this area is Onocosmoecus unicolor, but Dave suggested for that specimen that there might be multiple not-yet-distinguished species under the unicolor umbrella and it would be best to stick with the genus-level ID. I'm doing the same for this one.
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Entoman on Feb 23, 2013February 23rd, 2013, 2:49 pm EST
R. fuscula?
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Creno on Feb 23, 2013February 23rd, 2013, 5:53 pm EST
Yup - both R. fuscula and its sister species R. formosa have very distinctive, although different head and thoracic color patterns. Real nice pics for a live? specimen.
Oldredbarn on Feb 23, 2013February 23rd, 2013
Real nice pics for a live? specimen.
Yes Dave...Our very own Thomas Ames! It's nice he's no longer "hiding his light under a bushel". Only problem...I just get something worked out, or think I have, and his pics drive me back to the vice and my head is spinning. :) It's not like I'm caught up or anywhere close to it, probably never will be.
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"Envy not the man who lives beside the river, but the man the river flows through." Joseph T Heywood
Crepuscular on Feb 24, 2013February 24th, 2013, 6:58 am EST
Yes this last series of photos were all of live specimens, although they were dying pretty quickly as I put them into the set up for photographing them. It took this person of polish heritage a little while to figure out that the lighting was making the water very,very warm...
Entoman on Feb 24, 2013February 24th, 2013, 1:04 pm EST
No worries, Eric. The replacement bulbs we are now compelled to buy are quite cool.:)
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