Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Dabney S. Lancaster Community
College
Clifton Forge, Virginia
Today we put our macroinvertebrate knowledge to the test in the Cowpasture River.
Let's get this net filled with "bugs"!
Picking and counting requires tenacity (vocabulary word of the day).
Mekiela demonstrates her conquest of a hellgrammite.
The second-year participants measured the Cowpasture to determine the flow rate
of the river.
Our reward for hard work was a half-hour swim session.
Our Cowpasture River group photo. Click here
for a full-size version more suitable for printing.
The day's first find was this Technicolor caterpillar that will mature into
a gorgeous Cecropia moth -- North America's largest moth with a wingspan of
up to 7 inches. We also had two large brown/gray caterpillars fall from the
overhanging trees, but there really wasn't a good picture to post here.
Next we found a small Brown Water Snake.
We were not able to identify this small neonate salamander. Note the gills behind
the head and the keeled tail.
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