Today at the pond: The common backswimmer - a small and rarely noticed stillwater aquatic insect. They are predators.

#backswimmer #pond #aquaticinsect #macro #predator

Hexagenia limbata

Or

Big Ass Mayfly

(Hex)

On our patio

❤️

(You learn these things when you fly fish)

#Insect #aquaticinsect #Mayfly #fishing

Caring for diving beetles boosts urban biodiversity | University of Helsinki Ponds in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area serve as habitats for diving beetles. Urban planning and pond maintenance can either degrade or enhance their living conditions.

Over six years, we found a decline in diving #beetle numbers and species richness in #urban #ponds, and the ponds are losing their shared species.

#Dytiscidae #Coleoptera #DivingBeetle #Insect #AquaticInsect #biodiversity

www.helsinki.fi/en/news/clim...

#MayflyMonday

Going through old #macroinvertebrate pictures and found this Heptageniid #mayfly collected last spring. Just look at those #gills in action! #freshwater #aquaticinsect