1. How have Macroinvertebrates adapted to live in their habitat?
What physical features do water bugs have to help them live in the water?
What are adaptions?
Changes in physical appearance or behaviour to be able to survive.
They have adapted/changed to live in their habitat.

3. COMPARING adaptions between us and macroinvertebrates

4. Dragonfly
Dragonfly larvae emerging into a dragonfly

5. Investigating macroinvertebrates
Looking at the macros
Look carefully at their features. What do you notice about their legs, their tails and mouth parts.
Use the guides to help you identify the macros
Be gentle with the bugs!
They need to stay in the water at all times.

6. Pick a bug and write down the following information
TASK
Common name and scientific name
It’s features/what it looks like? Draw and label it
Identify one adaption it has made for its environment
What it likes to eat
An interesting fact
Pick a bug and write down the following information

7. The stonefly likes to live in very cold rivers that are not polluted.
Macroinvertebrates adapting to their environment
Stonefly
Plecoptera
The stonefly is a herbivore, it likes to eat vegetation such as algae, leaves.
The stonefly has developed gills on the outside of its body to breathe underwater
The stonefly likes to live in very cold rivers that are not polluted.