1. PowerPoint Requirements: Benthic Macro invertebrates (BMI)
Questions to answer: (River booklet “Spineless Ones” p )
What are they?
Why are they indicators?
How do we collect them?
Where to sample?
How do they develop?
What are the different “feeding groups”?
What do they look like?
Images to include: (google image search)
Stonefly larva
Dobsonfly larva
Caddisfly larva
Alderfly larva
Mayfly nymph
Damselfly nymph
Dragonfly nymph
Riffle Beetle
Aquatic worm
Leech
See “sample” PowerPoint in SWIFT website

2. Benthic Macro invertebrates (sample)

3. Benthic Macro invertebrates
What are they?
Why are they indicators?

4. Benthic Macro invertebrates
How do we collect them?
Where to sample/collect?

5. Benthic Macro invertebrates
How do they develop (Life Cycle)?
What are the different “feeding groups”?

6. What do they look like? picture of Stonefly larva picture of Dobsonfly
Caddisfly
larva