Help ID darter and insect!

[ColdwaterCreekGuide]

Tomorrow if I think about it I will email my buddy who graduated last year from Auburn in fisheries management. He did numerous studies on darters. There are more darter species in Alabama then any other state. I believe more FW species for that matter except for maybe Tennessee.

Anyhow that darter looks similiar to the VERY common ones i see in any size stream around me Louisville, we call it the fantail darter, but the common name is used for several different species.

This quote taken from http://research.ua.edu/archive2004/fishtails.html

"The state of Alabama is, by far, without any doubt, the most species rich state in the United States when it comes to fishes," Mayden said. Combining the state's freshwater and marine species gives the state nearly 1,000 fish species, he said.

Thanks so much for the help.. I think Drewish nailed it though..

 

[thetazman]

it looks like the banded darter, but there are more pics on the linked page

http://www.cnr.vt.edu/efish/families/bandeddart.html

 

[ColdwaterCreekGuide]

It is very similar to that species also!