Aquatic Insects

Below is a list of documented aquatic insects in Richard Lake:

  • Alderflies

  • Amphipods

  • Beetles (water scavenger, whirlig)

  • Caddisflies

  • Case makers (giant, northern, longhorned, saddle)

  • Clubtails

  • Crawing water beetles

  • Damselflies

  • Darners

  • Deer flies

  • Earthworms (aquatic)

  • Freshwater clams (fingernail or pea)

  • Horseflies

  • Leeches

  • Mayflies (flathead)

  • Midges

  • Midges (biting)

  • Pronggills

  • Skimmers (common, greeneyed, river cruisers)

  • Small squaregills

  • Snails (left opening, lymnaeid, physid, planorbid, right opening, sunken)

  • Turbellarians

  • Water boatman

  • Water bug (giant)

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