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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With a bit of help from the microscope, this specimen keys clearly and unsurprisingly to Hydropsyche.
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CaseyP on Sep 12, 2017September 12th, 2017, 4:46 pm EDT
went out to montana in august and found this on the car window. new phone actually took a really swell picture of it. no idea at this point where exactly, but probably near the Ruby River or the Madison.
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Millcreek on Sep 12, 2017September 12th, 2017, 5:15 pm EDT
Casey - Might be a male Callibaetis imago. Take a look at this Bugguide photo.
http://bugguide.net/node/view/1298833/bgimage
http://bugguide.net/node/view/1298833/bgimage
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CaseyP on Sep 18, 2017September 18th, 2017, 11:12 am EDT
thanks, Millcreek! the geographic location and the resemblance to the bug in the link would make me say Callibaetis.interesting color variation.
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Creno on Sep 19, 2017September 19th, 2017, 10:49 am EDT
If you have your settings right on your phone the phone may have placed a latitude/longitude on your photo. You can enter that into most mapping programs and it will show you where you were at.