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caddisfly - Rhyacophila acutiloba

caddisfly - Rhyacophila acutiloba
Woodford, Bennington County, Vermont, USA
April 2, 2009
Size: 15.3mm

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Wow! Very Impressive
Looks like a living fossil.

 
Thanks Scott
These aquatic larvae are keeping me busy. Don Chandler showed me how to use a dip net, and in a half hour of collecting I find enough to keep me busy photographing the rest of the day.

 
Are these found..
at the shore of freshwater lakes or ponds? I do a lot of my bug photography near a lake. There are areas which have a lot of this green mossy looking stuff floating in the water. Would this be a good place to search for these larvae?

Thanks!

 
Rivers and streams
I'm going to the edges of large rivers, and out into fast running rocky streams. The rocky streams are really good, and the way to catch the larvae is to place the dip net on the bottom of the stream bed, and kick around the stones and rocks just upstream of the net and tons of things float down into the net.

 
Yes
almost too much stuff. A good sample can suck two hours of photography away before you know it.

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