Entomology

This page contains photos from our time on the water, and you will find them on our local waters.  At one point or another they are of angling significance as well, and where they are found the fish will and do feed on them.  Feel free to forward any questions to us here and we’ll do our best to answer any questions you may have.  I am not an entomologist, but am very familiar with insects on our local waters and a have done a lot of stream study on my own – – nearly 30 yrs worth.  An excellent website with some insect info that is very accurate and reliable for our area is called Troutnut and is done by Jason Neuswanger.  This page continues to be  under construction, as I am adding new photos daily/weekly—thanks for your patience and eventually we’ll have each insect listed named to you can reference to what you find on the water.

Here are a couple of video clips applicable to the season, they are sulphurs, one of our most widespread and popular hatches.  The first video clip is a cup of natural nymphs captured just before hatching.  The second clip is of a freshly hatched sulphur dun that is drifting along until its wings are sufficient for flight.

S Holston (VA) Cahill

Baetis Nymph

Sulphur Nymph & 2 Frauds

Caddis Pupa

Blackfly Larva

Japanese Beetle

Blue Winged Olive

Sulphur Nymph (e.rotunda)

Sulphur Nymphs (e.dorothea)

S Holston Cased Caddis

S Holston (VA) Cahill

Blue Quill

Blue Quill Spinner

S Holston Baetis

Blackfly Larvae

Mitchell R Cased Caddis Larva

Blackfly Larva

Cranefly Larva

Blackfly Larvae

Caddis Larva

SoHo Sulphur

Mitchell R. Nymph Sample

Empty Sulphur Shuck

Brown Stone

Stenacron (Cahill) Nymph

Gray Fox Nymph

Japanese Beetle

Sulphur Nymph (Invaria)

SoHo Baetis Spinner

Baetis Nymph

Green Drake

Hydropsyche Caddis Larva

Yellow Sally (stonefly)

Trico Female

Quill Gordon

Free Living Caddis Larva

Olive Damsel

Lt Hendrickson

Microcaddis Spent

Sulphur Nymph (e.invaria)

Cased Caddis Larva

Caddis Cases

Stonefly nymph

Cinnamon Caddis

Tiny Blue Wing Olive

Hendrickson Nymph

Lt Cahill

Little Brown Caddis

Sowbugs

Blue Winged Olive

Baetis Spinner

Green Drake

Gray/Tan Scud

Sulphur Nymph (dorothea)

Little Black Stone

Sulphur (e.invaria)

Golden Stone Nymph

Japanese Beetle

Blackfly Larva (Stone Mtn)

Hendrickson

Sulphur Emerger

Tan Scud

Sulphur (e.invaria)

Caddis Larva

Baetis nymphs

South Holston Baetis

Baetis /BWO Nymph

Cased Caddis

Sulphur Nymph

Little Black Stone

Immature Stone Nymph

Early Brown Stone

Trico spinner spent

Caddis Larva

Sulphur (e.invaria)

Sulphur Dun (e.Invaria)

Baetis Nymph

Ermine Moth

Cased Caddis

Nymph Sample Smith River

Cinnamon Caddis

Hatching Midge

Sulphur Dun

Blackfly Larva

Blackfly Larva

Golden Stone Nymph

Sulphur Nymph (Invaria)

Blackfly Larva

Sowbugs

Dark Golden Stone Mitchell R

Golden Stone

Green Drake

Gypsy Moth

Nymph Sample Smith River

Tan Baetis Dun (SoHo)

Sulphur Nymphs (Mitchell R)

Cased Caddis

Cased Caddis

South Holston Sulphur Nymphs

Gray Fox Nymphs

Sulphur (dorothea) Nymph

Caddis Pupa

Blackfly Adult

South Holston Sulphur Spinner Male

Cased Caddis Larva

Baetis BWO nymph

Lt Hendrickson

Sulphur (e.invaria)

Sulphur Dun (e.dorothea)

Olive Caddis Pupa

Cased Caddis

Baetis Dun

Cranefly Spinner

Blue Quill

Caddis Pupa

Dun/Brown Caddis

Cranefly Larva, Caddis, Stones

Green Drake Spinner

Olive Damsel

Cased Caddis Larva

caddis larva

Spotted Sedge (Caddis)

Little Black Stone

Lt. Cahill Spinner

Sulphur Nymph (dorothea)

Amphinemura

Pseudocloeon BWO Emerger

Olive Damsel

Little Winter Stone

Baetis Nymph

Olive Damsel

Little Black Stone

Caddis Larva

Green Drake

Empty Sulphur Shucks

Blue Quill Spinner

Spotted Sedge (Caddis)

Japanese Beetle

Blackfly Larva

Caddis larva

Midge Larva

Cased Caddis Larvae

Cinnamon Caddis

Cinnamon Caddis

Blue Winged Olive

Caddis Pupa

Sowbug

e.invaria, Sulphur, Female

Cased Caddis

Caddis Larva

Caddis Larva

Sulphur Nymph & Caddis Larva

Sulphur Spinner (e.invaria)

Sulphur Dun (e.invaria)

Blue Winged Olive

Tan Caddis

Hellgrammite

Tan Caddis

BWos SoHo

Sulphur Spinner (e.invaria)

Golden Stone

Sulphur Nymphs

Caddis Pupa

Yellow Sally (yellow stonefly)

Lt. Cahill Spinner

Tan Baetis Dun (SoHo)

Blackfly Larva Cases

Nymph Sample Stone Mtn

Quill Gordon Nymph

Caddis Pupa

Sulphur (e.invaria)

Sulphur Dun (dorothea)

Tiny Blue Wing Olive

Lightning Bug

Cased Caddis Larva

SoHo Sulphur

Sulphur Nymphs

Little Black Stone

SoHo Cranefly

Gray Fox Nymph

Dun Caddis

SoHo Caddis Larva

Sulphur Nymph (dorothea)

Where You Find Bugs…

Spotted Sedge (Caddis)

Blue Wing Olive Smith R

Tan Baetis Dun (BWO SoHo)

Ephemerella, sp.

Baetis Nymph

Little Yellow Stone/Sally

South Holston BWO Spinner Female

Tan Caddis

Caddis Cases

Mahogany Dun Spinner

Green Drake

Yellow Stone/Yellow Sally

Yellow Stone/Yellow Sally

South Holston Baetis Spinner Male

Japanese Beetle

Baetis Spinner

Cranefly Tan

Cased Caddis

Caddis Pupa

Molting Spinner Pale Eve Dun

Japanese Beetle

Baetis /BWO Nymph

Early Brown Stone

Sulphur (e.invaria)

Green Midge

Cased Caddis larva

Smith R Cranefly

Chimarra Black Caddis

Olive Damsel

Sulphur nymph (dorothea)

Trico Male

Epeorus nymph

Sulphur (e.invaria)

Caddis Pupa

Cased Caddis

Brown Caddis Spent

Sulphur nymph (invaria)

Sulphur Nymph (dorothea)

Cinnamon Caddis

Baetis (BWO) Nymph

Immature Stone Nymph

Blackfly Larva

Cased Caddis Larva

Caddis Pupa

Midge shuck

Micro Caddis Spent

Giant Black Stone

Golden Stone Nymph

Golden Stone nymph

Early Brown Stone (Helton)

Caddis Larva

Wooly Worm

Caddis Cases

S Holston Scud

Little Blue Winged Olive

Brachycentrus (cased caddis) larva w/ a pheasant tail nymph

Lt. Cahill Spinner

Sulphur Dun (e.invaria)

Cased Caddis -Horned Sedge

SoHo Cranefly

Mitchell R Caddis Larva

Pteronarcella

Golden Stone

Sulphur Nymph (dorothea)

Blue Winged Olive

Sulphur (e.invaria)

Pteronarcella Giant Stones

Little Brown Caddis

Cast Spinner Skin

Cases Caddis & Quill Gordon

Hendrickson

Japanese Beetle

Blackfly Larvae

Sowbug

Sulphur Spinner Male

Baetis BWO Nymph

Lt Hendrickson Dun

Pale Morning Dun

Cased Caddis Larva

Olive Caddis Pupa

Isoperla Stone

Caddis Pupa

Cased Caddis

Baetis Nymph & Caddis Larva

Sulphur Nymph & Blackfly Larva

Hendrickson nymph

Cased Caddis Larva

Caddis larva

Black Stone

Baetis Dun

Cinnamon Caddis

Olive Damsel

Light Cahill Nymph

Lt Cahill Spinner

South Holston (VA) Cahill

Dun Caddis Adult

Gray/Tan Scud

Little Winter Stone Black

Siphlonurus Nymph

Caddis Pupa

Dicosmoecus or ‘October Caddis’

Sulphur Shuck

Blackfly Larva

Blackfly larvae (SoHo)

Grasshopper

Golden Stone

Tiny Blue Wing Olive

Sulphur Dun (e.invaria)

SoHo Sulphur Nymph

Blue Winged Olive