Favorite Bug

“That is a stone fly of the 'perlidae' order (? - not a biologist).

I'll get you the name from my hatch chart. Stonefly nymphs are active year round and are among the first aquatic insects to hatch.

Trout love them.”

“My guess is that the bug up yer butt finally fell out.”

“Geez, it was 5 this morning, I thought we were having a heat wave!
=D

Have you ever seen snow fleas? They are just black specks, so you have to look closely at the snow to see 'em movin'.”

“I've seen mosquitoes in January before. All it really takes is some sunlight beating down on decaying plant debris to heat small areas of water up enough for the eggs to hatch and the larva to mature.”

“They will hatch on a sunny day.

Snow fleas are cool. When I was living in Winterpeg in the mid-70's, one of the members of our outing club (funny how that name might have a different nuance to-day - but I digress) was a biologist who studied insects under the snow crust.

'So, you run a trapline.' I said

She laughed and said she'd never thought of it that way.”

“Nigal, perfect timing. I saw one of those things yesterday while I was clearing snow off of my driveway. It was crawling over the snow. Thought I was going buggy at first, pun intended. Never saw a bug out below freezing before in my life.

Thanks for the info Gremlin.”

“In the summer they climb out of the stream on stones - hence the name - at night and hatch.”

“That certainly was interesting.

Leave it to a trout fisherman to know what it is.

I bought my brother a book about hatch dates for Pennsylvania streams, but I don't think he went fishing much after that. Maybe it was information overload.

Hey Grem, are you coming down for the West Virginia trip in July?”

“Yep, stonefly. I've seen those guys crawling around streambanks while I'm picking the ice out of the eyes on my flyrod. Amazing that they are out when they are.”

“Hey if the fish love them maby we should try them.

Mmmmmmmmmmmmm Gooooooooood!!!!!!!!!!


8p”

“How the heck do their internals not freeze when its 25 degrees outside???”

“Antifreeze!!!!!


8p”

“Antifreeze isn't far off. Frogs have a type of antifreeze for their systems.

Now, who is Honey and is she hot?”

“I saw one of these a couple of days ago:



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“my favorite bug was a 1968 VW, green and chrome.”

“Slug bug!! [wack!]”

“\"Now, who is Honey and is she hot?�

She\'s a beautiful redhead...

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“Go on................”

“that is one beautiful b!tch you got nigal.
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“BTW, WV in July? Maybe.

'It may come as a surprise to most anglers that stonflies actually achieve their greatest abundance in many trout streams during the coldest time of the year, January, February and March. Little is known of their winter activity, and with good reason, for these stoneflies will not become evident in most streams until just before the arrival of winter, only to disappear, for the most part, by ealry spring.l They constitute virtually the only insects to be found emerging during the first three months of the year.

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The Tiny Winter Blacks (families Capniidae, Nemouridae, [sic] and Leuctridae)

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EASTERN AND MIDWESTERN TINY WINTER BLACKS

Allocapnia granulata (family Capniidae) is the most common ...

Paracapnia anguilata is similarly important only in the East ...

WESTERN TINY WINTER BLACKS

Mention is made of Capnia gracilaria; Capnia brevicaudata, Nemoura cintipes; Namoura besametsa.

From: Tiny Winter Blacks

Richards, Carl; Swisher, Doug; Arbona, Fred Jr.: 'Stoneflies'; New York, 1980.

Unfortunately, italics are not working on my computer.”

“Thanks for the info.”

“We have mosquitos in WA year round. It sucks!

My favorite bug is my Chihuahua. She is a Chihuahua and her registered name is K.T. Bug. I guess she was small and dark so they called her a bug.

I didn't register her, because there was no reason to since I was not showing her or I would have changed her name to Capri's Island Breeze. Right now it's Capri named after the Island off of Naples, Italy.”

“Stonefly or Mayfly..... Avid Fly Fisherman....That how I got into backpacking...Hiking into places to fish”

“Wow! Check out this cool bug. The Hummingbird Moth. It looks so much like a hummingbird you can't tell without looking real close.”

“Do they taste like humming birds?

And why does it sound like someone peeing in the background?”

“I had a bunch of those outside my old place. They freaked me out a little until I found out what they were.”

“It looks so much like a hummingbird you can't tell without looking real close.”

Maybe to you but I knew it was a bug the first time I saw one...didn't know what kind of bug but I knew it wasn't a bird. It is a neat bug though, one of my favs next to the cicada killer.”

“We have a bunch of them here, too. I had to do a double-take the first several times I saw them.”