Aquatic Insects of Central Virginia

This is stonefly season.  I am seeing some mayflies -- mostly flatheaded mayflies, genus Maccaffertium , and in streams that have them, I...

Today I got to explore yet another -- this is the fourth -- tributary to the Moormans in Sugar Hollow.  These are streams that flow throu...

I guess you can, and they really do look like shrimp! I made a quick trip this afternoon to a small stream near our home with one goal in...

I'm finding it difficult now to go to mediocre streams -- and that means, unfortunately, most of the streams in our watershed.  In th...