Aquatic Insects

The following is a list of the documented macro invertebrates found in Fairbank Lake.

  • Alderflies

  • Amphipods

  • Aquatic dance flies

  • Beetles (crawling water, diving, riffle, whirlig)

  • Burrowers (common)

  • Caddisflies (trumpetnet and tubemaking)

  • Case maker (northern and giant)

  • Clams - freshwater (fingernail and pea)

  • Clubtails

  • Crayfish

  • Darners

  • Deer flies

  • Earthworms (aquatic)

  • Flathead mayflies

  • Greeneyed skimmers

  • Horse flies

  • Leeches

  • Longhorned case makers

  • Midges

  • Midges (biting)

  • Narrow winged damselflies

  • Nematodes (horsehair worms)

  • Netspinners (common)

  • Pronggills

  • Snails (planorbid, sunken snails)

  • Spinny crawlers

  • Squaregills (small)

  • Water boatman

  • Water mites

  • Water pennies

  • Water scavenger beetles

  • Water scorpion

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