bugs in the water, again

I made it back to the Benthic project collection for the first time in months last Friday. Of course the whole project was derailed in the late summer because there warn’t no water. But the water’s back, at least some, and the critters too.








We went to the Burning Tree, Woodrow, and Gay Street sites. Jackson is still barricaded by the property-owner’s barbed wire. It will be a fairly quick lab session next week, because we didn’t get a whole lot. There were, I heard, dragonfly larvae in the Woodrow riffle, but I wasn’t picking that sample, so I didn't see them. Gay had lots of tiny, barely visible swimming thingies - scuds?? that had to be picked with the pipette, because you could never have caught them with the forceps. And a good many very fast and wiggly mosquito larvae. New folk, Faith and a guy whose name I didn’t absorb, joined us. Also Raquel, Theresa, Marilyn, John and Adelaide, and Don. No Kay.














Dragonfly and mosquito larvae images from Chris@184 Chris Bradbury and NZ Alex on Flickr. The pictures of John and Don, Adelaide, and Kay are from the Jackson site last April.