Freshwater macroinvertebrates

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What Order are dragonflies and damselflies in?

Odonata

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True/False: Dragonflies and damselflies primarily inhabit standing water

True

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Is it damselflies or dragonflies that can’t fold their wings?

Dragonflies

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Damselfly nymphs have _____ gills

Anal

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What Order are caddisflies?

Trichoptera

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What Order are mayflies?

Ephemoptera

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What Order are stoneflies?

Plecoptera

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What Order are dobsonflies?

Megaloptera

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What Order are true flies?

Diptera

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What Order are scorpion flies?

Mecoptera

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What Order are beetles?

Coleoptera

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What Order are true bugs (water boatman and backswimmers)?

Hemiptera

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What Order are worms?

Oligochaeta

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What Order are crayfish, shrimps?

Crustacea

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What Order are flatworms?

Platyhelminthes

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What Order are snails and clams?

Mollusca

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What Order are horsehair worms?

Nematomorpha

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The free-living caddisfly genus with a four dot pattern and claws on first leg

Hydrobiosis

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The free-living caddisfly genus with a plain dark head and claws on its first legs

Psilochorema

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The stick cased caddisfly genus with woody cases and stripes between joints

Triplectides

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The stony cased caddisfly genus with stony cases and stripes at the joints

Hudsonema

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The snail with a pointed shell and operculum

Potamopyrgus

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The snail with a rounded shell and lacks an operculum

Physa

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Worm genus with segments and fine hairs

Oligochaeta

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Worm genus with eye spots and are flat

Platyhelminthes

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Fly larvae, distinguished from worms, by having a head and little fleshy legs

Chironomidae

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What macroinvertebrate is common in lentic systems, are predators, and breathe air by coming to the surface and collecting air in a “plastron” under the body?

Backswimmers

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How old might kakahi (freshwater mussels) live in years?

60

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<p>What larvae?</p>

What larvae?

Damselfly

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<p>What larvae? </p>

What larvae?

Dragonfly

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Three main body parts of insect (from anterior to posterior)

Head, thorax, abdomen

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<p>What body part is this from damselfly larvae?</p>

What body part is this from damselfly larvae?

Anal gills

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Difference between nymph and larva?

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<p>What are these?</p>

What are these?

Caddisfly eggs

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<p>Whats the name for this eye?</p>

Whats the name for this eye?

Compound

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<p>Name for this light sensing organ</p>

Name for this light sensing organ

Ocelli

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<p>What is the spiracular disc used for?</p>

What is the spiracular disc used for?

Respiration

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<p>What taxa has 3 cerci (whip-like tails)?</p>

What taxa has 3 cerci (whip-like tails)?

Mayfly

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Whats a true fly Order?

Diptera

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<p>What taxa has 2 cerci (whip-like tails)?</p>

What taxa has 2 cerci (whip-like tails)?

Stonefly

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<p>What ____fly is this? (Megaloptera - toebiter)</p>

What ____fly is this? (Megaloptera - toebiter)

Dobsonfly

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<p>What is the common name for Coleoptera?</p>

What is the common name for Coleoptera?

Beetle

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A "______" is the juvenile of an insect with a hemimetabolous life cycle and a "______" is a juvenile from a holometabolous life cycle (i.e. it has a pupal stage) (put , in between answers)

Nymph, larvae

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Macroinvertebrates are operationally defined as those invertebrate animals which will not pass through a __ mm sieve

0.5

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What Order are moths in?

Lepidoptera

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Mayfly

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Mayfly

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Mayfly

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Stonefly

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Stonefly

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Stonefly

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Uncased caddis

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Cased caddis

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Purse caddis

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Dobsonfly

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Beetles

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Damselfly

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Dragonfly

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Amphipod

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Snail

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Water boatmen

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Worm

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Flies

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Grub-like body, some in protective case

Caddisfly

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Spiral-cased caddisfly

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Spiral-cased caddisfly

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Smooth-cased caddisfly

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Smooth-cased caddisfly

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Stony-cased caddisfly

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Stony-cased caddisfly

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Woody-cased caddisfly

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Free-living caddisfly

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Woody-cased caddisfly

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Free-living caddisfly

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Oxyethira

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Oxyethira

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Six legs, biting mouthparts, adults with hard covers over wings, larvae with hard body (compared with caddisfly larvae

Beetle

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Beetle

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Beetle

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Pond sater

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Three tails, gills along the sides of the body

Mayfly

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Swimming mayfly

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Spiny gill mayfly

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Flat mayfly

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Flat mayfly

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Swimming mayfly

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Spiny gill mayfly

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Leg-like gills along the body

Dobsonfly

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Archichauliodes dobsonfly

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Two tails, most lack gills along the side of the body

Stonefly

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Stenoperla

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Tail gill stonefly

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Spotty stonefly

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Flatworm

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Shrimp

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Seed shrimp

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Horsehair worm

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Dragonfly

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Dragonfly

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