Aquatic Insects

The following is a list of aquatic insects documented in Minnow Lake:
 

  • Amphipods
  • Beetles (crawling water, predaceous diving)
  • Caddisflies (micro, trumpetnet, tubemaking)
  • Case Makers (giant, northern)
  • Clams - freshwater (fingernail, pea)
  • Clubtails
  • Damselflies (narrowwinged, spreadwinged)
  • Darners
  • Earthworms (aquatic)
  • Freeliving
  • Leeches
  • Midges
  • Midges (biting)
  • Nematodes
  • Skimmers (common, greeneyed)
  • Small squaregills
  • Snail (freshwater, planorbid, sunken)
  • Turbellarians
  • Water boatman
  • Water flea
  • Water mites
  • Worms (horsehair)

For more information and pictures of macro invertebrates (aquatic insects), please visit the Aquatic Insects Information section of our website.