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Amazon Creek @ Frank Kinney Park
Macroinvertebrate data: 03-04-2014
School: Edison Elementary School
Date and time: March 4, 2014, 3:15 p.m.
Water quality: Fair
Number of people sorting/identifying: 7
Water type: riffle
Time spent sorting/identifying: 45 minutes
Weather:
Percent EPT: 13.85%
Note: EPT is the total number of caddisflies, mayflies, and stoneflies found divided by number of all bugs
Field notes: Also saw one water strider and three aquatic sow bugs.
Sensitivity to pollution
Sensitive
Count | |
---|---|
Caddisfly |
1 |
Mayfly |
15 |
Riffle beetle |
0 |
Stonefly |
2 |
Water penny |
0 |
Dobsonfly |
0 |
Sensitive total |
9 |
Somewhat Sensitive
Count | |
---|---|
Clam/mussel
|
0 |
Crane fly
|
2 |
Crayfish
|
0 |
Damselfly
|
10 |
Dragonfly
|
0 |
Scud
|
0 |
Fishfly
|
0 |
Alderfly
|
0 |
Mite
|
0 |
Somewhat sensitive total |
4 |
Tolerant
Count | |
---|---|
Aquatic worm
|
0 |
Blackfly
|
100 |
Leech
|
0 |
Midge
|
0 |
Snail
|
0 |
Mosquito larva
|
0 |
Tolerant total |
1 |