Alpine_Tom Posted July 24, 2002 Share Posted July 24, 2002 Two weekends back, I ended up at Pyramid Lake, up on the N. Cascades highway, after an attempt on Silver Star Peak got rained out. (It’s the lake that you pass on the way up to Pyramid Peak.) It’s a small lake, maybe half an acre and is interesting in that there are no fish. Sitting there by the lake, enjoying the lack of mosquitoes in the sun, I noticed some bizarre little insects hovering over the lake. There were hundreds of them, much larger than mosquitoes (envision veeeery small hummingbirds) and they were bouncing up and down maybe six inch, a foot or two above the surface of the lake. Not going anywhere, just bouncing up and down in the same spot. Anyone know what the heck I saw? Are they snafflehound larvae? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle_Tricky Posted July 27, 2002 Share Posted July 27, 2002 Probably caddis flies--there's 7,000 species. They're laying eggs each time they bounce on the water. A popular trout fly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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