Stone Flies

I have posted a few photos of stone flies today. A few you say! I have a vast collection of stone flies in varios stages of emergance from underwater nymph to emerging to matting and laying eggs on the surface of the water. I have different types and sizes as well. Each type brings adjustments to getting the photo. In March, the early little black stone crawls out of the icy river making it's way above the ice and across snow to find a sutable location to emerge from it's armor like nymphl shuck. Many times the outside air temperature is below freezing. I have been photographing stone flies in these conditions only to have them die! The larger stone flies start to emerge when we start to get warm weather at night. To find these large stone flies i look for their nymphl shucks attatched to the rocks. Usually this is in faster water. This is why there shuck is so strong as they live in fast well oxygenated water.