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Alright, spring is finally here and with it the insects are slowly showing up here again! This past weekend I spent sometime while outside looking for beetles, I found two nice speciemens!

 

One is a very interesting Short wing beetle exactly one inch long. No matter how I have searched my books or the internet I can't seem to find what beetle it is, here in sweden we have only one large short wing wich looks exactly like this one but is all black. Look at the beautiful golden markings on it!

 

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The other one is most certainly a Carabus Violaceus, I think the common name is Violet ground beetle. It has this nice purple edge to it, unfortunatly the flash of the camera kinda ruined some of the colours in the photo.

 

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Ulf

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This is indeed a Northern mole cricket. Michigan has one native species, Neocurtilla h. hexadactula (Perty), 1832. What's cool is this species is semi-aquatic, burrowing in moist or saturated soils along ponds, marshes, and streams.

 

Great specimen. Do you still have it?

 

Cheers, Ethan

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Here is a pic of a Hexagenia limbata I posted in the Entomology forum.

Would love to see a realistic fly tyed using this photo as a reference!!!

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Hello everyone :)

 

I have found a lovely photos of different insects on http://www.troutnut.com .

 

There are photos of:

 

Baetidae

Ephemerellidae

Baetis

Isonychia

Hexagenia limbata

Heptageniidae

Hydropsychidae

Ephemerella

Brachycentridae

Ephemera

 

Here is one of them

 

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Nice photos Will.

 

Here's a few of several hundred photos I took a couple of days ago while fly fishing the Kern River in the Souther Sierra.

 

Next March, the stones will be hatching, and I'll be there........

 

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I brought home a couple dozen vials with bugs preserved in bug balm fluid.

 

And the fishing was great as well!!!

 

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A couple of Hopper pics for reference-

 

Hope you find them usefull

 

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and a detail crop of the head area.

 

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Will

Wow, im impress. Perfect macroshot..

Will, do you know.. wich type of Hopper this is ?

 

/ Marcus, Sweden.

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