October comes a bit early

[ScottP]

Found this guy on the truck (put the thumb in just for scale). Don't think they'd be in Whitefish Lake; maybe the river although it's a slow flower without much substrate/vegetation in the town section. Figures; they start popping off just as we're packing up to leave.








Regards,
Scott

[sagefisher]

Yep, fall is fast approaching. I have been finding the black & brown Woolly caterpillars around the place, a sure sign of fall.

Fall on the rivers, what a grand time to be fishing.

Larry ---sagefisher---

[ScottP]

My bad; not the Great Pumpkin. It was a Onocosmoecus unicolor or Great Late Summer Sedge:

http://www.troutnut.com/specimen/1011

Pretty fly, anyway.

Regards,
Scott

[Marco]

I see you're a carpenter .


Mark

[Preston Singletary]

Just for reference, here's a picture of the true October Caddis, Giant Orange Sedge; whatever you choose to call him (this is Dicosmoecus gilvipes, one of five western North American species). The first picture is of the pupa, two pictures of the adult. The October caddis pupa crawls/swims ashore and leaves his abandoned pupal shuck stuck to rocks and logs near the waterline.<br>&nbsp;&lt;br type="_moz"&gt;<br type="_moz">