Name that bug

[Steelie Junkie 0]

Found these small stoneflies crawling over the snow and ice when I was fishing on one of the Grand River feeder creeks several weeks ago. I know they're a species of stonefly, but kind is it?

[Guest]

Allocapnia granulata or the Tiny Early Black Stone Fly or

Nemouridae and Leuctridae Late Winter tiny black Stone Fly

 

 

 

OSD.

[uncletube 0]

That looks a lot like the small black stone flies we have here in missouri the genus is Allocopnia I am not sure of the family but ,ours what few we have hatch a little later in winter.

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[Frank G. Swarner III 0]

Just checked in a basic entomology book "A Guide to Common Freshwater Invertebrates of North America" by J. Reese Voshell Jr. He notes two of them:

 

Winter Stoneflies - Plecoptera:Taeniopterygidae

 

Small Winter Stoneflies - Plecoptera:Capniidae

 

The book only has drawings of the insects in the nymphal stage.

 

Fish-N-Chip

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Thanks for the rest of the name OSD. We do have a few here but not in enough numbers for a serious hatch .

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[Guest]

http://www.flyanglersonline.com/features/nqento/part1.html

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I hate getting old,

Not only couldn't I remember the full name of the fly but, forgot the damned link was on my Fav's list.

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[Guest]

I gotta go with OSD on this one...Looks like a Tiny Sone to me....I have seen a few around here in KY recently.....Midges are hatching every where right now, but I did have a lone Mayfly land on my rod a few weekends ago when the temp reached an unseasonable 78.....first mayfly I seen since last August....