VFB'ers & Entomologists,
I was
recently up pretty high in the mountains darn near 10,000 ft. It was above cooke
city in Montana in the sub alpine area. With scattered trees and rock
outcroppings etc. I came across this pond with very cold and clear water which
was full of some sort of swimming nymph? At least thats what it looked like to
me. They were about an inch in length and were very adgile swimmers. The small
pond was full of them. I thought that maybe they were damselfly or dragonfly
nymphs but no photo I can find look like these. And I do believe that these swim
differently also. I mean these things looked prehistoric. They didn't swim with
a wiggle and didn't seem to have legs either but propelled themselves from the
wing casing/shuck area with rythmic undulations of hairs or something? Hmm...
don't know. It's hard to explain. Does anybody have any idea's or point me to
some photos. I didn't fish one out (didn't want to touch them) and didn't get
any photos but I did get a little mpeg video of them swimming. It's about 3.8 MB
large so if any of you out there have hi speed access I'll be happy to post the
clip on the web and you all can take a look. I sure wish I could figure out what
these things are. Entomologists?
Bill
P.
