Wetland invertebrate wildlife

Wetland Invertebrate Wildlife
Wetland Environments
Thomas A. Eddy

The following pictures illustrate invertebrate wildlife typical of wetlands in the central United States. Common names are given for each animal along with its classification by order (class or genus). Click on small images to see larger versions.

	Crayfish (dorsal) Decapoda		Crayfish (ventral) Decapoda
	Crayfish (excavation or chimney) Decapoda		Fairy Shrimp Anostraca
	Zooplankton (various)		Leech Hirudinea (class)
	Bryozoa Bugula (genus)		Mayfly (immature) Ephemeroptera
	Damselfly (immature) Odonata		Damselfly (adult mating) Male (top) & female (bottom) Odonata
	Dragonfly (immature) Odonata		Dragonfly (adult female) Anax junius, Common Green Darner Cheyenne Bottoms, KS Photo by J.S. Aber
	Hellgrammite (immature Dobsonfly) Neuroptera		Whirligig Beetle (immature) Coleoptera
	Whirligig Beetle (aggregation) Coleoptera		Water Scavenger Beetle (ventral) Coleoptera
	Water Scavenger Beetle (dorsal) Coleoptera		Predaceous Diving Beetle Coleoptera
	Mosquito (male & female) Diptera		Mosquito (immature) Diptera
	Mosquito (feeding) Diptera		Mosquito (wing scales) Diptera

Kansas School Naturalist

Stream ecology by Carl Prophet (2005).
Kansas damselflies by R.J. Beckemeyer and D.G. Huggins (1998).
Kansas dragonflies by R.J. Beckemeyer and D.G. Huggins (1997).

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