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presentations

What is a Food Web?

Aquatic Insect Lifecycles

Winter Stream Food Webs

Podcasts

The 'Diving Deep into Aquatic Insects' podcast is for people in Minnesota (and beyond) who are interested in learning more about aquatic insects living in their rivers, lakes, and streams. Each podcast episode highlights an aquatic insect order.  This family-friendly podcast is full of fun facts and insect puns that create excitement towards aquatic insects. 

Plecoptera 

-Stoneflies-

Odonata

-Dragonflies & Damselflies-

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Trichoptera

-Caddisflies-

Insect Videos

Collectors and Gatherers

Predators

Scrappers

Shredders

Stream Food Webs

Bugs Below Zero is supported by an interdisciplinary team of experts from the agricultural and environmental sciences, science communication, entomology, fisheries, wildlife, and conservation biology disciplines. Our work combines classroom resources, educational events, digital tools, and a participatory science effort. We focus on winter aquatic insects in trout streams around Minnesota. These bugs are vitally important to the health of trout ecosystems. Partial funding for this project was provided by the Minnesota Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund, as recommended by the Legislative-Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources (LCCMR).

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