» Class Insecta (Insects)
1 order (Neuroptera)
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This is page 68 of specimens of Insecta. Visit the main Insecta page for:
- The behavior and habitat of Insecta.
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Pictures of 1229 Insect Specimens:
Male Heptagenia culacantha Mayfly Spinner
View 1 PicturesThis photo was provided by guide Eric Naguski along with the following comments, "I took this photo just upstream of Three Mile Island on the east shore of the Susquehanna River just below where the Swatara Creek enters. The Susquehanna is not an easy river to sample for bugs in my opinion. It is very large and pushes a lot of water. Especially in the spring when you would collect mature culacantha nymphs. And I don't believe that there are a ton of these Heptageniids around. Also the people who are doing most of the sampling like myself are doing so for water quality monitoring work so they only take the specimens down to genus-level taxonomy". Baetidae (Blue-Winged Olives) Mayfly Nymph
View 3 PicturesClose examination under a microscope revealed that this Baetid nymph has segment 5 pale, segments 8, 9, and 10 pale but less so, a middle tail almost as long as the outer tails, conspicuous gill veinlets (Veinlet: Short insect wing veins connecting the major longitudinal veins to the wing margin.), no bands on its tails, and pointed, slender 7th gills.