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> My latest work project: fish & bugs

Creek chub, lots of these (Semotilus atromaculatus)

SIT STILL!!!

Beautiful longear sunfish (Lepomis megalotis)!

Baby bass!! Little juvenile smallmouth

Juvenile bluegill

Bluntnose minnow (Pimephales notatus), most common fish in our samples

Juvenile hog sucker (Hypantelium nigricans), only got one but I'm sure there's more

We caught 4 species of darters, this is probably an orangethroat darter, Etheostoma spectabile (the others were Johnny, fantail, and rainbow darters)

Weeeee little catfish! Yellow bullhead (Ameiurus natalis)

Caenis mayflies were fairly common

And now for some bugs! A raw, unsorted sample, separated from the debris

Paraleptophlebia was the second most common taxon after Chironomidae (which I may yet take down to genus!) Collected over 1100 of these total!

Ephemera was the largest mayfly we found

Arigomphus dragonfly nymph

Chimarra was easy to spot because of their big heads!

Hydropsyche larva - Cheumatopsyche was much more common

Mollusks too - Helisoma was occasional

Goniobasis snails were extremely common in some samples (one had 376!)

Clams too! Psidium, a.k.a. pill clams

Not a mollusk nor a turtle! Water penny beetle larvae, Psephenus sp.