Aquatic Insects
Below is a list of documented aquatic insects in McCharles Lake:
- Amphipods
- Beetles (Crawling water, predaceous diving, riffle, water scavenger)
- Caddisflies (trumpetnet and tubemaking)
- Case makers (giant, longhorned, northern)
- Clams - freshwater (fingernail, pea)
- Clubtails
- Damselflies (narrowwinged)
- Earthworms (aquatic)
- Long legged flies (aquatic)
- Mayflies (flathead)
- Midges
- Midges (biting)
- Moths
- Spinny Crawlers
- Snails (left opening, lymnaied, physid, planorbid, right opening, sunken)
- Squaregills (small)
- Water boatman
- Water mites
For more information about, and pictures of, macro invertebrates (aquatic insects), please visit the Aquatic Insects Information section of our website.