I took a steam sample right near my house today, Quitty, and found 2 types of bugs. Lots of freshwater shrimp 14-16 and some other bug which I don’t know what it is. Maybe someone can help. They looked almost like small helgramittes, small thin body, black head, brown body, pinchers in front and something coming out the back. Is it possible they are helgramittes? they were size 10-12.
Thanks
If you can throw on a picture that would be sweet. Pop Entomology Quiz!
I took a picture, I don’t know how to post it.
Get an account on photobuckt. upload the image there and then you
can copy the img and post it on this board.
It will make more sense as you dot.
Rick
Here they are
[img][http://s213.photobucket.com/albums/cc60/jkilroy_02/?action=view¤t=DSC01518.jpg/img]
So, what is it?
I don’t know what I’m doing wrong.
Under each thumbnail at photobucket,(on your screen, anyway), there are four little windows with various iterations of the URL for the photo. Cut and paste the SECOND one of the four, from the top, into here.
Here…I just did it for you… :lol:
copy and paste the bottom one from photobucket
One more time
That was painful, so what is that worm looking thing in the middle of the picture?
why nor ‘raise’ them and find out? 8)
Kilroy, great job, you did it!!!
Now we need to figure that bug! Let’s get 'er done!
Whatever it is it was trying to eat the freshwater shrimp. I dumped everything back in the creek.
I tend to agree with JC on this, it would be fun to raise the insects and see what they become. However, as I’m no expert on entemology, I looked it up and found a great photo.
How’s that?
I say it’s a Hellgramite.
That looks like a freel living caddis larva to me.
Hellgrammite Juvenile of a Dobson fly.
In my bait drowning days we used hundreds of those for large trout. They come in all shades of green, brown, olive , black and even an almost orange.
Plus if you do it wrong they bite. Hard!
Looks like it could be a free living caddis like a Rhyacophila species. It’s strange how a small helgrammite can be so similar to a free living caddis. Maybe someone out there with some more entymological knowledge than I could post a method that could be used to distinguish the two species. The free living caddis are little predators too. If you do a Google search on Rhyacophils caddis, you will find alot of information and pictures that look alot like your mystery bug.
The creature in the stream sample picture is a rockworm caddis. Try a green weenie the next time you fish the stream!
Marty
I’m with flyfshr and byo3 on this.
Freeliving caddis. Maybe an alderfly
Single tail?
