Aquatic Insects of Central Virginia

I've mentioned "tolerance values" for taxa in many blog entries.  Where do we find them? For the tolerance values -- by fami...

This is probably the best photo I've gotten all year of a Uenoid case-maker caddis larva -- beautiful case. Imagine the work that went...

Since I mentioned J. Reese Voshell's seminal work -- A Guide to Common Freshwater Invertebrates of North America -- in my previous ent...

This is a freeliving caddisfly larva (family: Rhyacophilidae) that I found yesterday in Elk Run, a tributary to Buck Mt. Creek. One of th...

The photo above was sent in by one of our readers -- who chooses to remain anonymous.  This is a spiny crawler mayfly nymph, found in the M...

Judging by the feedback I'm getting from "Blogspot," the most popular entry with readers -- at the moment -- is the one on ...

I did not find that a whole lot had changed in the North Fork since my visit on 1/3 of this year (see previous entry).   But I did find a l...