Northwest Branch at Sandy Spring
Map of All Sites | Water Quality Monitoring
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Organisms Found in 2010
Asellidae (sowbugs) Baetidae (small minnow mayflies) Ceratopogonidae (biting midges) Chironomidae (midges) Corydalidae (dobsonflies/fishflies) Culicidae (mosquitoes) Decapoda (crayfish) Dryopidae (long-toed beetles) Elmidae (riffle beetles) Gomphidae (clubtail dragonflies) Heptageniidae (flatheaded mayflies) Heptageniidae G. Stenonema/ Mccaffertium Hydropsychidae (common netspinner caddisflies) Leptophlebiidae (pronggilled mayflies) Oligochaeta (aquatic worms) Perlidae (common stoneflies) Philopotamidae (fingernet caddisflies) Physidae (pouch snails) Planariidae (planarians/flatworms) Simuliidae (black flies) Tipulidae (crane flies) Uenoidae (Ueonoid casemaker caddisflies)
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Happiness is finding something new! (photo by Alex Farifield)
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Getting ready to monitor (photo by Alex Farifield) |
 Collecting the sample (photo by Alex Farifield) |
 Carefully emptying the sample into the pan (photo by Alex Farifield) |
 Lynn Rust helps search for macroinvertebrates. (photo by Alex Farifield) |
 The team (photo by Alex Farifield) |
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