Wednesday, March 12, 2014

A significant find in Sugar Hollow: The case-maker Pseudostenophylax sparsus

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I can't take credit for this one.  This caddisfly larva was found on Sunday by my friend who lives in Sugar Hollow in a spring ...
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Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Another look: that free-living caddisfly larva was probably R. glaberrima

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Back we go to this free-living caddisfly larva from Entry Run.  On Sunday (3/9) I suggested that it might be Rhyacophila shenandoahensis ...
Monday, March 10, 2014

Microscope photography: taking close-ups of anatomical features

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(Microscope photo of the ventral teeth on the anal claws of a free-living caddisfly larva.) One of our readers has asked what sort of s...
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Sunday, March 9, 2014

On that free-living caddisfly larva -- could it be Rhyacophila shenandoahensis?

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The Rhyacophilid I found yesterday at Entry Run in Greene County -- the one in this photo -- might be Rhyacophila shenandoahensis .  Sh...
Saturday, March 8, 2014

Don't mess with the Rhyacophilids (free-living caddisfly larva)! Moving up Entry Run

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That flatheaded mayfly just got a little too close!  Rhyacophilids are predaceous.  Had I not broken this up, that flathead would have be...
Thursday, March 6, 2014

Can we say goodbye to winter? A mature S. fasciata large winter stonefly at the Doyles

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Sorry.  This is not the S. fasciata large winter, but it has to come first.  A beautiful Perlodid stonefly Helopicus subvarians .  It ...