Fish
This species scientific name means "Black Tail."
What is Carolina Madtom?
This plant has no known food value for wildlife and can be found in water or muddy soil of lakes, swamps, and streams
What is Lizard's Tail?
This Macro is shaped like a tiny, grey, oblong frisbee with 6 tiny legs on bottom and is a slow crawler
What is a Water Penny (larva)?
A geological formation that is permeable; a water-bearing layer of rock or soil
What is an aquifer?
Micropterus salmoides
What is the Largemouth Bass?
This fish species is native to North Carolina and moves to shallow water to mate in the spring, making them easier for anglers to catch
What is the Crappie?
The dense growth of this plant can interfere with some pond uses, such as boating and fishing. It is a submerged plant
What is American Waterweed?
This Macro is a slender, long-legged bug and is a surface dweller
What is a Water Strider?
The offspring of a bird or mammal
What is a brood?
Salvelinus fontinalis
What is Brook Trout?
This fish is described as having a dark spot at the base of its soft dorsal fin, dark vertical lines on its body, and a generally orange or bronze chest
What is Bluegill?
Flowers from this plant usually has 25 or more petals. It is a floating leaf, rooted plant and has globe shaped fruit
What is Water Lily?
The Midge Fly is found in this Macro group
What is Group 3?
A species of fish that lives in freshwater and spawns in saltwater
What is catadromous?
Lepomis cyanellus
What is Green Sunfish?
The spawning migration of this fish can extend up to 500 miles inland in some of the larger coastal rivers
What is the American Shad?
This plant is free floating with 1-3 leaves that are nearly flat on both sides.
What is Common Duckweed?
This Macro group indicates moderately pollutant tolerant organisms that are found in a wide range of water quality conditions
What is Group 2?
The term that indicates the number of fish, by species, that can be legally caught in one day
What is creel limit?
Nelumbo lutea
What is water lotus?
This fish is often restricted to small headwater streams in the mountains of North Carolina. According to fish taxonomy classifications, this fish is a char
What is Brook Trout?
This plant has disk shaped floating leaves that are center cupped. Its roots are large and rooted in mud. It is found in the quiet water of ponds and sluggish streams.
What is Water Lotus?
This Macro has 6 jointed legs; large pinching jaws, and many pointed feelers along the edge of its body. It also has 2 small hooks at the back end
What is Dobsonfly larva?
The outermost layer of cells in a plant or animal
What is epidermis?
Pontederia cordata
What is Pickerelweed?