These flying insects emerge from the water like mayflies and others that are natural fish bait, inspiring their own set of artificial flies for fisherfolk!
Stoneflies are actually an entire ORDER of arthropods in the Insecta class, but iNaturalist helped me narrow these two I found down to two different genera in two different families
Stoneflies are thought to be indicators of a healthy aquatic ecosystem, as they cannot tolerate water pollution! If you walk along the water and have these little ones land fearlessly on you… or you see the trout nipping at them as they rest on the water’s surface, you can feel happy about the condition of that particular habitat.
This black-white-and-grey bird points its slender bill downwards - or tilts it comically upwards - as it spirals face-first down tree trunks and round ...
