Today's bug discovery

[The Arborist]

I found this little guy (girl?) crawling up a small stick very close to the edge of the water. I'm thinking it is a Yellow Quill. It was about 4PM and it looks freshly hatched.


I have no idea on this one. I thought at first it was a male mosquito. There were quite a few of them on this rock right down next to the water. It is about 1" long. Any ideas?


And finally this one which I think is just a flying ant, but man is it large!


All these were sighted on a small, fast moving, mountain stream. Thanks!

[EricW]

Nice pics
1) I've usually call these a Sulphur. That one seems really pale / translucent.
2) Crane fly. There are tons of different kinds. I think most are terrestrial. (Mosquito hawk sometimes called. English call them Daddy Longlegs with a lot of patterns for them)
3) Has antennae and a waist... big ole flying ant!

Ralph Cutter's site sometimes helps to narrow things down.

[rippinstreamers]

I found these flying around today, any ideas

[Troutstalker55B]

Pteronarcys stone fly; Salmon fly. The ancient bug.

[DLJeff]

Here's one that seems obvious to me but is a puzzle. To me looks like a callibaetis due to the mottled wings and drab grey / tan color. There are several each morning around my back deck. I live within a couple minutes of the Deschutes River and that's where the puzzle comes in. The Deschutes moves pretty good through here and I haven't seen any frog water (other than some of the little ponds in people's yards and around the golf course). I suppose those golf course ponds are big enough to create habitat for a callibaetis. Anyone confirm the ID for me?

[Troutstalker55B]

It's a calibaetis dun. I used to own some very small ponds between Graeagle and Portola and they had a good population of calibaetis in them. The hatch would happen two weeks before they popped out at Lake Davis. Since LD was only 7 miles away I figured they got blown in. Great picture!