Aquatic Insects of Central Virginia

Friday, January 3, 2020

Leptophlebia: Working on the species ID of a nymph I found on New Years Day

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I celebrated New Years Day by going to a tiny, slow water stream in Sugar Hollow and was rewarded by finding a pronggilled mayfly nymph, ...
Thursday, June 20, 2019

Updated Species List for Central Virginia

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Since I've been finding a number of new species this year, I thought it best that I update the EPT (Mayflies, Stoneflies, and Caddisf...
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New taxa -- so far -- in 2019

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It's been a good year so far in terms of finding new species of EPT, so I thought I'd sum up our findings so far. 1. In the pho...
Monday, April 15, 2019

A fresh look at the problem of Rhithrogena species ID

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I found this little nymph at Buck Mt. Creek last Thursday (4/11/19),  and since we have a new key to use for species ID -- Morse, McCaffe...
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Sunday, March 31, 2019

Another new insect: an Ameletidae, Ameletus tertius

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I found this little mayfly at the Rapidan River on Tuesday, and when I looked at it in the bowl, my first guess was that it was nothing b...
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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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