A nice Nectopsyche sp. (Trichoptera) in its case. Found in freshwater rivers of Ecuador .💦
#Macroinvertebrates #Freshwater #Ecology
Chesapeake Bay Foundation Educators were leading students through learning stations today, at the Bioblitz at DiFilippo Nature Preserve in Mechanicsburg. Students studied water quality and biodiversity, found aquatic macroinvertebrates, learned about fish, and helped in a buffer planting.
.Illinois EPA participated in Stewardship Week at Dixon Springs Ag Center, teaching students about aquatic macroinvertebrates and their role in indicating stream and lake health. Students got hands-on with live invertebrates! #StewardshipWeek2024
NatureBridge staff and students at Yosemite National Park loved celebrating Earth Week 2024! 🌎 🌳 🌻
Community science projects included studying Black Oak phenology, tracking Merced River macroinvertebrates for National Park Service, and collecting trash/sorting plastic for 5 Gyres. TY! 💚
Celebrating this #EarthDay2024 out in nature, looking for stream macroinvertebrates and salamanders with an enthusiastic group of Rubenstein School students. University of Vermont
Presentation by Nikol KMENTOVA of our Belspo FED-tWIN project on #OneHealth monitoring of macroinvertebrates and metazoan parasites in African Convention on Wetlands protected wetlands, in a collaboration between Institute of Natural Sciences Belgium and CMK UHasselt BiTElab Universiteit Hasselt.
Our Environmental Education team spent Earth Day at the Clean Water Celebration in Peoria! 💧 The Illinois EPA table focused on assessing surface water quality with a secchi disk, hand pump for chlorophyll, specimens of macroinvertebrates and discussed nonpoint source pollution.
This is the Spring weekend of the #BigRiverWatch from The Rivers Trust. We regularly monitor the health/ill health of the Foss by sampling water for chemicals and other pollutants; looking for mammals, birds, fish and macroinvertebrates.
EcoYorkCYC #York
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