Aquatic Insects

Below is a list of the documented aquatic insects in St. Charles Lake:

  • Alderflies

  • Amphipods

  • Aquatic Earthworms

  • Backswimmers

  • Biting Midges

  • Clubtails

  • Common Skimmers

  • Crawling Water Beetles

  • Darners

  • Freeliving

  • Freshwater Clams (fingernail or pea)

  • Freshwater Snails

  • Giant Case Makers

  • Greeneye Skimmers

  • Horse and Deer Flies

  • Horsehair Worms

  • Leeches

  • Longhorned Case Makers

  • Midges

  • Narrowwinged Damselflies

  • Nematodes

  • Northern Case Makers

  • Planorbid Snails

  • Predaceous Diving Beetles

  • Scalemouth Caddisflies

  • Small Squaregills

  • Snailcase Makers

  • Sunken Snails

  • Trumpetnet & Tubemaking Caddisflies

  • Water Boatman

  • Water Fleas

  • Water Mites

  • Whirlig Beetles

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