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Roger Rohrbeck, Contributing Editor
Full name:
Roger Rohrbeck
E-mail address:
RRohrbeck@comcast.net
City, state, country:
Royse City, TX, USA
Biography:

My interest in identification of aquatic insects developed as a natural byproduct of transitioning from other methods of fishing to fly fishing during my early 40’s. However, it was not until my retirement, which followed a 35-year career in information technology, that I was afforded the opportunity to fully pursue study of aquatic entomology and taxonomy.

Within several years following retirement, I had accumulated an enormity of texts and notes on aquatic entomology and taxonomy. And, it was becoming readily apparent that some manner of organizing and accessing that information was sorely needed, as accurate memory of minutia was definitely not my strong suit.

My initial approach was to organize all the information in an Access database, but it didn’t take long to realize that this approach (alone) would not allow sharing the information with other flyfishers. So, I developed a web presence, which was initially just many entomology-related pages on the website of the flyfishing club to which I belonged. However, as my ever-increasing need for storage began to cause a problem, I took the big plunge, and got my own domain name and hosting provider. To date, the website I developed, and have added to for two decades, has received nearly 1,000,000 separate visits, from (125) countries, representing all (6) inhabited continents.

My mayfly identifications generally indicate sex (male or female), lifestage (nymph or subimago or imago), and taxon (family or genus and often even species).

If you should have a question concerning aquatic insects, please feel free to ask me via my above listed email address, and you will receive a prompt, respectful, and (hopefully) enlightened answer.

Sincerely,

Roger Rohrbeck