State Trout Bug

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If there were an election to vote for a Pennsylvania Trout Bug , what insect would you vote for? Mine would either be either a carpenter ant or a "Hendrickson" or a stone fly , 1,2,3. And yinz?
 
I would think with the way the drakes almost seem to have their own "groupies" that they would win.
Personally I'll take the sulphurs, then march browns.
 
Lestrout and I ran into Greg Hoover, one most respected entomologists in PA, at Spring Creek during last year's jam. He said that sulphurs were by far the most common mayfly hatch in PA. I can't recall his analogy, something like the Chevy of bugs, but anyway..........TG for sulphurs! They're my vote.
 
The state fish is the brook char, not the rainbow and the state flower, the Mountain Laurel, not petunia. I would select a hatch that is unique to PA or relatively unique and prolific in at least some particular area. It should attract tourism. Thus, the Limestone belt's Eastern Green Drake (Pennsylvanicus Gargantuoses) gets my vote.

Is there a more famous hatch in PA? Sulfers on Spring, Grannoms on the Little J, perhaps.
 
Famous hatches is not what we were voting on but if we were it would have to be the "White fly hatch" down east.
 
In choosing a "state Trout Bug," I am suggesting that famous populations within the state should be a heavily weighted criterion.
 
My vote would be for the March brown or Sulphur!

PaulG
 
Most abundant statewide- hands down the sulpher or is it the sulphur. hehe

As far as the most famous- GD on Penn's.
 
A "famous hatch" could be the autumn lady bugs , but i don't know if trout eat them. The "white fly hatch" has made national news , what with the baseball games on city island and the local folks having to shovel them from the streets of Harrisburg and Steelton. Every year the media shows a clip of some unsuspecting out fielder doing the mayfly dance under the lights. My State Trout Bug choice remains the black carpenter ant.
 
I saw a "White fly hatch" on the Susk. that was so intense you could hear it.
 
I would vote for sulphurs or light cahills. The only problem I can see is that those common names can represent several different species. If I had to pick one species, I would choose the largest of the common sulphur species. I can not remember which Ephemerella species is the largest off hand.
 
The old name was "Rotunda", but those dang egg head entomologists combined a lot of the species on us just to mess us up!....... :evil:
 
For Mayflys the sulfurs for their widespread presence. But their widespread presence is largely due to their mild pollution tolerance so they are not an indicator species for water quality.

I would go with the Hendricksons or Quill Gordons.

But for grandeous representation you would have to go with the Green Drake. Hands Down.
 
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