Aquatic Insects of Central Virginia

Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Searching for Isoperla Perlodids at Buck Mt. Creek

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I had high hopes this morning as I drove out to Buck Mt. Creek.  It's Isoperla time in our part of Virginia, and Buck Mt. Creek is...
Friday, May 8, 2015

The Perlodid stonefly Remenus bilobatus in a stream where I've not seen it before

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As you will see in a minute, it was one of those days when the pictures I took of the stream (small stream in Sugar Hollow) were better t...
Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Drunella doddsi, a big spiny crawler from the Northwest: back from Portland, OR

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It was a quick trip to Portland: our daughter's a Pastry Chef, and she's swamped with work at the moment.  But we did have time t...
Monday, April 27, 2015

Well, my original ID was right! It's Maccaffertium pudicum

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We learn by making mistakes: or so it sometimes seems.  After careful study of our flatheaded nymph from the Rapidan River -- and a littl...
Saturday, April 25, 2015

It was NOT Maccaffertium pudicum: M. mediopunctatum? M. wudigeum?

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Back to the drawing board on this one, this beautiful, fully mature flatheaded mayfly from the Rapidan River.    It was not Maccafferti...
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Professor of Chinese Religions at Dartmouth College, 1976-2006. Avid fly fisherman who developed an interest in benthic macroinvertebrates while volunteering with StreamWatch in Charlottesville. For more of his photos, go to https://www.flickr.com/photos/aquaticinsects_of_central_virginia/sets/.
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