How well do you know your aquatic critters?

[JasonN]

I made up a neat little quiz to see how well most people know their bugs. (Well, they're not all technically bugs, which is why I say critters!) Post your guesses before you peek at the answers... let's see who does best.

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1: (common or scientific name for the family)


2: (common name for the order and family, scientific name for the genus)


3: (common and scientific name for the order)


4: (common name for the family, scientific name for the species)


5: (common and scientific name for the species)


6: (common name for the family, scientific name for the genus)


7: (common name for the order, scientific name for the family)


8: (common and scientific name for the family)


9: (common and scientific name for the family)


10: (common and scientific name for the suborder)


11: (common name for the order, scientific name for the genus)


12: (common and scientific name for the family)


13: (common and scientific name for the family)


14: (common name for the order, common and scientific name for the species)


15: (common name for the family, scientific name for the species)


16: (common name for the order, common and scientific name for the species)


17: (common and scientific name for the family)


18: (common and scientific name for the order)


19: (common name for the order, scientific name for the species)


20: (common and scientific name for the suborder)

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When you're done guessing see how well you did here: http://www.troutnut.com/otherpics/quiz1/answers.html

Let me know if you'd like to see more of these... I could cook up a pretty tough all-mayfly quiz if people want to try their hand at that.
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[JapanRon]

Hey there JasonN,

Welcome to BFT if I've not said so already. I'm guessing all those bugs are for the fishies. I'm thinking if I was a fish, I'd be a vegetarian. Yech!!

JapanRon
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[Dryrod]

[]Hey there JasonN,

Good pop quiz. However it is kind of long. We didn't have that many species to identify when I took microbacteriaology [study of microbes instead of bugs] when I was in college.

Well the first one looks like a praying mantis, then you have some mayflys, waterbugs, hellgiammites caddisflys and snoreeeeee! Couldn't stay awake that long.

Here in SOCA we don't have any bugs to mess with. Well I will take that back since the fire ants and african bees snuck in during the night. Originally I am not from Calif. Need I say more. I guess man is his own worse enemy.

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[tkishkape]

[] This is the invitation list to Burl Ives' "Ugly Bug Ball"!

I'm glad we don't have them ugly critters in Oklahoma!
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[davetclown]

I could swear I saw some of them things in my bed last night [shocked]

Welcome to bigfishtackle Jason

that is quite the test, 5-6 years ago I would have made a stab at it. I have fished with some of them, I have found specimens and studied them in my biology class. but time age and a kick in the head has jared my memory...

Looking forward to the refresher coruce when you get the chacne...

What state are you fishing from these days?
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[patches]

hahaha i,m glad we aint got em too. haha we got the matis one, and the may flies, the other i dont know, what they are! haha UGLY is right. we got a bug lays on the rocks durein the summer, its grey and white, i know the name but just cant member what it is right now and if ya step on it or pick it up it will give ya like a electrical shock. but the bass and the trout love em. i caught a few trout with em, but i use my glove. to put em on with. there not big a toll. 1/4 inch long i figure. there are some weird ones out there/
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[patches]

yes too jason ya done good on the test! seems your learnin good. haha keep it up.
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[bulldawg53115]

The only one I recognized was the wiggler. We use them for perch. I saw one of the first one that you posted here this winter. It popped up through my son's ice hole when he was fishing. He asked me what it was. I had no clue. Thought it resembled one of those walking sticks...lol. What is it?[shocked]
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[JasonN]

Dawg, check the answer key. I put descriptions of what they all are up on there:

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And Davet, I'm in northwestern Wisconsin right now. I wish it would warm up already! The rest of the country has spring and it's still snowing here today. I've been out fly fishing anyway.
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[tubeN2]

Hey Jason, thanks for the brain teaser. It is nice to have something different for a change of pace. It is also nice to know what the names of some of our little critters are that the fish are biting on.
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[davetclown]

I hear that, the snow is falling here as well in south east detroit. I am looking forward to a good sucker run this year, did not get one last year. maybe this slow melt will help.

we do need a slow melt to keep the lake levels up this year...
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[Dryrod]

[cool]Hey davetclown,

Mind sharing some of that cooler weather with my friends and I from SO.CAL! We had our one day of winter for now we are in the high 80's and 90's. Last week it hit 100 at my house. And my DumbS___t neighbor says isn't this great weather. Duh yea if you live under water. In fact it got so hot, how hot was it ?well my CPU started smoking.


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[patches]

well dont know what ya mean by posted cause i nevr have had nothin to post anything with so i guess i dont know. ya we got those stick ones here, haha. i know the mayflies, but othhers i have no clue. haha snow where you are this last week?? has here everyday! sick of it! suppose to git a good storm friday. well i dont call it good! haha anyways, we wont be seein any these mayflies fer quite a while. with this snow!! darn it! later[]
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[tubeN2]

Hey Dryrod, At least I can sympathize with you. I am on the West side of the SFV. We get some scorchers out here too. I am now fine tuning my pressure sensor for my float tube so that it will automatically control the air pressure for these hot days. I already had it set for inflation in the cold, now I have to set it for deflation in the heat.
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[DanielJRioux]

Hey, I know their names, collectively they are known as FISH BAIT!
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[JasonN]

Patches, we've STILL got frickin' snow. It's crazy. Almost mid-April and we've got highs of 33 this weekend!
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