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November 11, 2009

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This is a Stenonema femoratum mayfly nymph, sometimes called a "Cream Cahill." Mayfly taxonomy has changed dramatically over the years, and unfortunately, the best sources for field or microscope ID available to the non-specialist are out of date. To make the sources sync with today's taxonomy requires various translation sheets. It gets rather confusing. Across the mayflies of North America are many genera and species that have been lumped or reassigned, in many cases to the consternation of anglers who point out that some lumped species contain two or more forms that have different hatch periods as well as different and distinctive body markings. Genetic work has had a huge impact on mayfly taxonomy and from what I've read, or at least from what I understand, the majority of the taxonomy changes have resulted from laboratory work. Maybe a better explanation for some of the problems taxonomic changes have caused fly fisherman and interested non-specialists would be

The 8th (VIII) International Pwoermd Writing Month 2017 concluded yesterday. I wrote a lot of pwoermds in April, and posted a few to facebook. I thought I'd dump the lot of them here, including a few that I never got around to posting. Here are two that didn't get posted in April. The dead frog was found on a road along the Little Pigeon River in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Here's a longer piece devoted to the Purple Dead Nettle. And in no particular order, here are more pieces: limnstone doord unpact chesmitry widlelife widyllife

Two Spanish-language-influenced pwoermds. My family and I were in Cancun in December, and it's interesting to be in a place where the color schemes are so different than what we're used to. Other than converting the HIELLO jpg to black-and-white, and perhaps pretentiously photographing it on page 81 of Ulysses , in which it had been placed for convenience (not to mention using that novel to hold odd papers for convenience in the first place), I didn't manipulate these pwoermds digitally. Both pieces today are cut out of scrap paper. Scrap paper is a wonderful thing to find. +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Many more here, and it's worth checking out: International Pwoermd Writing Month

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