Today is world rivers day, so I thought to celebrate I would right a quick post showing some of Britain’s river wildlife. Perhaps the most colourful bird in Britain, the kingfisher, is usually found perched by rivers, hunting fish. Also hunting fish, heron can be found at and in rivers. Salmon rely on clean rivers…
When up in the Cairngorms last March I carried out some stream sampling with my net. Among the cranefly larvae with scary looking jaws and the Clinging Mayfly Nymphs, were some impressive looking large stonefly larvae. They were identified by Craig Macadam (Buglife’s Conservation Director) as Perlodes mortoni, the Orange-striped Stonefly. Until recently it was…
Back in August last year I did my own river dipping/sampling for the first time, at Bellever on Dartmoor, and managed to find my first ever stonefly nymphs The exact species is hard if not impossible to determin without a specimen under the microscope, but it was kindly Idebtified by Craig Macadam as one of…