Water Creature

[CheddarChick]

Ok we were in Pearl Lake yesterday. Looked under a rock for crawdads, and found a ????. About 1" long brown speckled with a sectioned body that had 3 prong things at the tip. Looked like a underwater earwig. I would show it to you, but as I was focusing on it in my hubby's hand a bluegill swooped in and ate it.....

 

[archman]

Some mayfly larvae have that 3-spined tail thingie, though they're more in the nature of filaments.

Stonefly larvae are often confused with earwigs. That's another possibility.

 

[CheddarChick]

Apparently a delicious Damselfly larvae... thanks for the heads up in the right direction
http://www.narbeck.org/Bugs/Bug Gallery/damsel_larva.jpg

 

[alcina]

Like I said - gross :froze:

 

[Juls64]

Yuck....but interesting

 

[TwoBitTxn]

I'm sure the bluegill was thinking quite the opposite.

 

[CheddarChick]

The bluegill loved it.. It was gone in .0001 seconds, then he hung around for the rest of the dive like a dog.