Michigan’s Hex Hatches

July 31, 2019 By: Erin Block

In this recent essay, Tom Hazelton writes about a trip to catch one of Michigan’s famous Hexagenia hatches. “News of the good spinner falls had percolated downstate and the nine-to-fivers — us, most years — were up north en masse, a sudden shift in human biomass, like the one that Hexagenia limbata makes as it migrates from streambed to sky every summer.” Via Hatch Magazine.