New Riverfly sampling spot! 🏡
We've moved HQ, which means one very exciting thing... a brand new Riverfly sampling location for team Riverfly! 🙌
We can't wait to see what invertebrates turn up and how this new site compares over time. 🐛✨
#FreshwaterMonitoring #CitizenScience #FreshwaterFriday
🪰 Freshwater Friday - Flat-bodied stone-clingers (Heptageniidae)
Larvae in this family of mayflies have a flattened shape, which is perfect for clinging to rocks in fast-flowing streams.
If you spot them, it’s a good sign of a healthy river.
#FreshwaterFriday #Riverfly #Heptageniidae
✨ Freshwater Friday spotlight: Damselflies! ✨
Part of our Extended Riverfly family, damselflies are slender, agile hunters that spend most of their lives underwater as larvae. 💦
#FreshwaterFriday #RiverflyPartnership #CitizenScience #Damselflies #FreshwaterInvertebrates
#FreshwaterFriday #Riverfly #BlueWingedOlive #Mayfly #FreshwaterLife #CitizenScience #RiverflyMonitoring #InvertebrateIndicators #SeasonalChange #HealthyRivers
Nature’s little builders 🌿 In August, some of our monitors found as many as 1000 cased caddis in their sample!
Caddis larvae make protective cases from twigs, sand, and stones. Each one is unique!
#FreshwaterFriday #Caddisfly #FreshwaterInvertebrates
This Freshwater Friday we celebrate our Riverfly volunteers going out and braving whatever the British weather has in store for them. A wet day at Cressbrook & Litton Flyfishers Club on the Derbyshire Wye - lots of fun!
#volunteers #riverflymonitors #citizenscience #britishweather #freshwaterfriday
Our Freshwater Friday Champion!
Small but mighty 🦐. In July, our Riverfly monitors counted a staggering 104,859 freshwater shrimp!
Freshwater shrimp are tough, feeding on leaf litter and recycling nutrients back into the river.
#FreshwaterFriday #FreshwaterShrimp #RiverflyMonitoring
#FreshwaterFriday
🔬 The flattened head of a Heptageniidae mayfly nymph, perfect for life in fast-flowing water.
💧The nymphs are specially adapted to cling to submerged rocks in high-velocity water. Their broad, flattened head and streamlined body allow them to resist against high flow conditions.
🐟🌞 Freshwater Friday! We're enjoying the warmer weather in Michigan and the vibrant colors of our stream fishes this spring. It's spawning season! 🌼🐠 🧪🌎
#FreshwaterFriday #Spring
An image of a longnose gar in an aquarium, with others in the background. Text reads "Group hovering starts in ten minutes"
a homemade gar meme for #freshwaterfriday and #GarWeek day 5
#freshwaterfriday is a thing! Here’s Sammi and Kong sampling the Goulaun river for some #salmon #foodweb #climate work - a new collaboration for us with Guy Woodward’s group @imperialcollege @ejogorman #BurrishooleLTER @MarineInst
