Macroinvertebrate Survey
Sligo Creek - North of Colesville Road

Total % found with
high pollution sensitivity
4.93
Total % found with
medium pollution sensitivity
45.68 37.5
Total % found with
low pollution sensitivity
100 49.38 62.5
Phylum Class Order Family - Click on underlined items for sketch 12/6/04 5/30/95 12/14/92
Annelida Hirudinea Rhynchobdellida Glossiphoniidae (leech)
  Oligochaeta     48.21%
    Lumbriculida Lumbriculidae (worm) 11.73%
      Opisthophora (worm) 1.23%
    Tubificida Enchytraeidae (potworm)
      Naididae (aquatic worm) 0.62%
      Tubificidae (aquatic worm)
Arthropoda Crustacea Amphipoda Crangonyctidae (scud)
      Gammaridae (scud) 1.23%
    Decapoda Cambaridae (crayfish) 1.23% 1.79%
    Isopoda Asellidae (aquatic sow bug) 12.35% 3.57%
  Insecta Coleoptera (beetles) Elmidae (riffle beetle)
      Dryopidae (long-toed water beetle)
      Gyrinidae (whirligig beetle)
      Psephenidae (water penny)
      Dytiscidae (predaceous diving beetle)
    Diptera (true flies) Tabanidae (horse fly)
      Tipulidae (cranefly) 7.41% 5.36%
      Chironomidae (non-biting midge) 17.90% 7.14%
      Empididae (dance fly)
      Simuliidae (black fly) 33.3% 4.32%
    Emphemeroptera (mayflies) Ameletidae (minnow mayfly)
      Baetidae (small minnow mayfly) 0.62%
      Ephemerellidae (spiny crawler mayfly)
      Heptageniidae (flathead mayfly)
      Leptophlebiidae (pronggilled mayfly)
    Lepidoptera (moths) Cosmopterygidae (cosmopterygid moth) 1.7% 1.7%
    Megaloptera Corydalidae (dobsonfly, fishfly, hellgrammite)
    Odonata (damselflies and dragonflies) Calopterygidae (broad winged damselfly)
      Corduliidae (emerald dragonfly)
      Aeshnidae (darner dragonfly)
      Gomphidae (clubtail dragonfly)
    Plecoptera (stoneflies) Capniidae (small winter stonefly)
      Nemouridae (nemourid stonefly)
    Tricoptera (caddisflies) Odontoceridae (strongcase maker caddisfly)
      Phryganeidae (giant casemaker caddisfly)
      Hydropsychidae (common netspinner caddisfly) 37.65% 32.14%
      Limnephilidae (northern casemaker caddisfly)
      Uenoidae (uenoid case maker caddisfly)
Mollusca Bivalvia Eulamellibranchia Sphaeriidae (fingernail clam)
  Gastropoda Basammatophora Physidae (physa snail) 3.70%
      (lunged snails) 66.6%
      Ancylidae (lunged snail) 1.79%
      Lymnaeidae (lunged snail)
      Planorbidae (lunged snail)
Nemertea Enopla Hoplonemertea, suborder Monostilifera Tetrastemmatidae (ribbon worm)
Platyhelminthes Turbellaria Tricladida Planariidae (flatworm)