Volunteer Stream Monitoring: Macroinvertebrate Aquatic Insect Collection.

Volunteers Welcome!

Volunteer Stream Monitoring: Macroinvertebrate Aquatic Insect Collection.  Volunteers are needed to help us collect macroinvertebrates (aquatic insects) at specified stream sites. The number and types of species found helps to better understand water quality and habitat.

For this event we need volunteers to be Assistants and Pickers.

Collectors serve as team leaders and capture insects with a special net in the water.

Assistants wade into the stream with a bucket to hold whatever has been collected. The assistant also helps the Collector measure water depth and length of the site under study.

Pickers pick and sort the insects--it is fun! For this event, pickers will not go streamside but instead will meet at a park pavilion to pick and sort and learn to identify them also.