VT Aquatic Invertebrates

Update re MS Office 2016 on Windows 11. It was tricky to install. My new Win 11 machine came with Microsoft 365 'sort of' installed - basically present but not usable without buying a subscription. The subscription was not the show stopper, it was the way cloud storage is forced on you. You have to ...

Learning MS Access - it's way more stable and logically organized than LibreOffice (LO). For example, drop-down boxes in LO, from the little I know, are defined in forms; in Access they can be defined at the table level so one implementation is effective for all uses. I have removed the link to my ...

I apologize for wasting time down this rabbit hole, but, it's winter and I'd rather sit at my computer than pretend I enjoy going outside. Eventually I had to experiment with a database application on a PC, having spent my professional career as an applications programmer in the IBM world. I've got ...

They may be 'common', but I've only seen this one in 2 years of collecting. From the Battenkill River in southern Vermont, at the NY border along Rt 313. The tusks are diagnostic.

This from Andrea Kautz, the imaging specialist responsible for producing the images on Macroinvertebrates.org - 'The background I use while imaging is simply plain white paper. After the image is rendered, I use photoshop to blend the image background into the background we used for the site ...

The images presented on the website macroinvertebrates.org are spectacular. I've spent almost two years working on-and-off on imaging aquatic invertebrates, and remain envious of the best that can be achieved. I was able to contact the imaging specialist who put the images together to find out what ...

Didymosphenia geminata aka Didymo aka Rock Snot has been, and remains, incompletely understood. It is a diatom which develops on a stalk. In certain conditions, called blooms, is has the ability to completely cover the substrate of a stream with serious consequences to the biological environment ...

I currently am using a 500 micron D-frame dipnet with a 5' wooden handle from Wildco. I also use a 250 micro mesh sieve, a small wash bottle, a 5 gallon bucket, a bottle of grain alcohol, and some pint-size plastic sample jars. I fill the bucket half-full at the collecting site, work material into ...

I've been looking for an example of a giant stonefly - this is as close as I've come, a cast-off molt. From the North Branch of the Middlebury River, Aug 21, 2024. Side and dorsal views.

Knotweed is listed among the 100 worst invasive species in the world. It is a serious threat to waterways in Vermont and throughout the areas it has invaded in Europe and North America. Over the past 5-10 years, it has completely taken over the streambank vegetation of many rivers and streams ...