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Alex C.

Check this thing out

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Okay, I'm sitting here cleaning out my fly boxes and I open one up and this guy is staring at me. He must have jumped in on a recent fishing trip and got locked up. He's very healthy, I've got him still and am going to take some better pics of him so I can use them for tying a realistic one.

 

A couple questions:

 

1- What kind of bug is it?

2- What is the purpose of the thing sticking out of it's butt

 

 

Heres a few pics, his body is about 15mm long, not including the thing sticking out of his arse

 

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IPB Image

 

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Cave Cricket. Have no clue about the butt thing.

 

That's an ovipositor extending from the last abdominal segment, which indicates that it's a female.

 

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