#macroinvertebrates

[ronthafrog]

hellgrammite!!! (eastern dobsonfly nymph)

I love these so much, their patterns are so beautiful. They can bite pretty hard, but i’ve never had one bite me at all. otherwise they’re harmless!

you can see its abdominal gills as well, which are really fucking cool !!

#hellgrammite #fishing #fishblr #conservation #nature #biology #insects #bugs #entomology #macroinvertebrates #bugcore #wildlife #wildlife photography #bug photography

[thedisablednaturalist]

This is a long shot but if someone can save me a few hours worth of research I'd be super grateful

I am a field technician doing stream monitoring and my local county department is developing a more detailed assessment method using family-level pollution tolerances rather than the more commonly used method of sorting specimens into either Philopotamidae vs. Hydropsychidae. Through my research I've found that tolerance varies between members of the same family, and it is useful to also be aware of genus-level tolerances. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find a good reference for many genera (except for macroinvertebrates.org, love that site) I also don't have access to paywalled research papers and have been stuck with looking through old government reports and open-source journals. Is anyone willing to share a good paper/report/website with me that includes any information available for Trichoptera (and any other macroinvertebrate order) genera-level tolerance values?

(I tried posting on reddit but all the relevant invert forums are dead)

#wrenfea.exe #invertebrates #macroinvertebrates #trichoptera #caddisfly #biomonitoring #stream science #stream ecology #freshwater ecology #bugs #insects #larvae #larva #fishing #btw if anyone is interested in aquatic insects please look at macroinvertebrates.org its amazing #biology #marine science

[rewild]

girl hellppp. I’m in the detritus,, girl!

#macroinvertebrates #benthic organisms #rivers #biology #insects #tw insects #bugs #tw bugs #streams #looking for bugs

[plethodontidae]

freshwater ecology class is fun until my docs all look like this

#chit chat #ecology #macroinvertebrates #like i PROMISE these are real words. pinky promise

[aspenabode]

Look at this cool guy I collected

#nature #insects #macroinvertebrates #damselfly larvae

[oaresearchpaper]

#Macroinvertebrates #Physico-Chemical #Niche #Shift #Lake #Dryland

[gfdelmar]

#gfdelmar og #nature #vernal pool #spring migration #salamanders #spotted salamander #marble salamander #ambystomid #mole salamanders #macroinvertebrates #fairy shrimp #snail #water scorpion #giant toe biter #Hemiptera #chorus frog #frog #western chorus frog #red eft #eastern red spotted newt #red spotted newt #newt #eastern red backed salamander #salamander #crayfish #crawdad #salamander larvae #larval salamander

[statelytrees]

Integration through delineation

The PLE wetlanders are now in the home stretch of the course, and have been working hard on their plant collections, several assignments, and preparing for Friday’s final celebration of knowledge. We started the day with the final lecture of the course, which was focused on the role that wetlands play in the broader earth system particularly with respect to nitrogen and carbon cycling. The…

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#Biodiversity #Ecology #Ecosystems #macroinvertebrates #Nature #Plants #Science #wetland delineation #Wetlands

[nelip0t]

Hi my names Sue, and I'll be getting no sleep tonight because tomorrow is stream assessment training at work, which means I get to play with all the bugs!

#macro invertebrate #macroinvertebrate species #macroinvertebrates

[rillette]

draw hal instead of doing schoolwork. listen to your heart bestie <3 (joking joking pls do your work do your uhhh uhhhhhhhhh <-- was gonna make a major joke here but do not know what u do)

this counts as doing both i think <3

#asks <3 #ty for the ask!! #this post is specifically for me and me only this is the nichest of content ever #im a gen bio major lol #i will not lie to u bros i was sitting in a river catching bugs last week all that was going through my head was shit like #what if the gls used macroinvertebrates to judge the environmental status of alien planets instead of being typecast as space cops #my brain rot is STRONG rn. apolocheese to everyone that mentions green lantern in conversation with me #someone asked me about the dc stickers on my laptop today and i was sweating trying to be normal about liking comics books #the bug on the right is my attempt at drawing a hellgrammite (from memory). if u even care.

[autistickaitovocaloid]

Show was fun.

#art talks about stuff #they had 2 other vocaloid shirts (one with all the cryptonloids + one with meiko that i really wanted) #but they had none in my size #i got the panda from a carnival game no name yet but it was all damp from the water when i got it #i got to talk to these people at a booth about marine life which was really fun #there was also an earlier display by one of the local school with fish + yabbies + some trays of aquatic macroinvertebrates #but i was too shy to go into non stop autism mode about planarians so #id in alt text

[ronthafrog]

dragonhunter larva! by far the largest dragonfly i’ve seen

#conservation #nature #biology #entomology #macroinvertebrates #bugs #insects #bugcore #fishblr

[thedisablednaturalist]

I literally work at bug daycare

We caught a CRIMINAL today

So we put the bugs in ice cube trays with water to make it easier to count them and separate them by species. And we had found this big ol hellgrammite. He was not happy about being put into the tiny ice cube tray and kept going into the corner and looking up at me sadly.

We go down to the stream to take another sample, we were only gone for 1 min and 30 seconds

Come back and he's gone. My man somehow crawled out of the tray (which isn't unusual for a hellgrammite tbh) and then fucking hauled ass to the edge of the table where he presumably fell off into the tall grass below. I searched and searched cause he needs water to breathe, he's an aquatic organism. Eventually I was able to find him and I put him back and was lecturing him like he was a puppy who had peed on the carpet. My coworker had to stop me cause I was saying "naughty! naughty boy!" And we were out in the middle of the woods

Saddest little baby in the room vvvvvvv

#from the field #bugs #insects #macroinvertebrates #hellgrammites #larva #i love hellgrammites theyre so pretty and cute #when u drop them in the water they curl into a ball #little dumb bitey babies #he and all the rest of the bug babies were released back into the stream afterward

[treemaidengeek]

#tumblr polls #aquatic biology #aquatic macroinvertebrates #insects #cool bugs #creeks #riparian #my stuff

[wetlandwanderer]

Trick or treat! (hands you several hydrometridae)

!!! I saw my first marsh treader this spring, in return for the hydrometridae, a water penny!

#a Macroinvertebrate in return for a Macroinvertebrate #asks #travel log #insects

[lieutenant-sarcastic]

Fuuuucckk I’m running an environmental education program Solo tomorrow and I’m so nervous my brain has snapped awake at 3 am.. aldkskdj Thanks dude Im sure sleep deprivation is super conducive to running a program you’re not an expert in!!

#its pond habitat water chemistry and macroinvertebrates 😭 #which is my supervisor’s area of expertise #But she’s totally out of commission #but i should be fine ????? Like I’m not an expert on ID’ing the stuff but i know the basics #but my brain is BRRRRRRRR (deragatory) #up to something