Stream Bugs
Stream Habitats
Fintastic Friends
Women in STREAM
100
This macroinvertebrate has a labium, or an expendable, arm-like “lower lip” that can strike out to capture prey in as few as 10 milliseconds!
What is a dragonfly nymph?
100
What is the meaning of “benthic”?
"the bottom of a body of water"
100
Trout grow on trees! How is this true?
Trout don’t LITERALLY grow on trees, but in a freshwater food web, the life cycle of trout depends on streamside forests! As trees shed leaves, twigs, and branches all year round, they provide important habitat for young trout; they also provide important habitat AND food for aquatic macroinvertebrates that trout feed on! To put it simply, trout eat the bugs that eat the leaves that grow on trees.
100
At a time when women couldn’t vote and often could not own property, this fly-fishing girlboss and entrepreneur paved the way for other female business owners by creating her own fly tackle company in Stevens Point, Wisconsin. Her work eventually made Stevens Point the "Fly Fishing Capital of the World"!
Carrie Frost (1868-1937)
200
This macroinvertebrate is famous for “hairy armpits,” or gills on its thorax that can be seen at the base of its legs.
What is a stonefly nymph?
200
Name 3 ingredients of a healthy stream.
HINT! What do the different beads on your STREAM Girls bracelet represent?
200
Trout have this number of hearts. (Bonus: Why?)
What is two hearts?
The first functions as the normal blood-pumping machine and, in most fish, sits right behind the throat. This four-chambered heart pumps deoxygenated blood to the gills where it fills small capillaries.
200
This “First Lady of Flyfishing” was the first woman in history to win the national fly-casting distance title by beating the all-male competition. She went on to become the National Casting Champion from 1943-1960 and the first woman to receive a salaried contract with a fishing tackle manufacture!
Joan Wulff (1926 - present)
300
This type of scientist studies insects and invertebrates.
What is an entomologist?
300
What can a bioindicator species, such as a caddisfly, tell you about stream health?
Bioindicators are living things that tell us whether a habitat or ecosystem is healthy. These species, including some types of aquatic macroinvertebrates, are the most sensitive to (easily harmed by) pollution!
300
This trout is only the trout native to Pennsylvania rivers.
What is brook trout?
The brook trout is the only salmonid (trout/salmon) native to the streams and rivers of the eastern United States and, by extension, Pennsylvania. All other species of trout in Pennsylvania, such as brown trout and rainbow trout, are non-native and can even be invasive in some small streams!
300
This famous conductor on the Underground Railroad used her extensive knowledge of Pennsylvania rivers, as well as her skills as a birder and naturalist, to escort over 50 slaves to freedom!
Harriet Tubman (1822 - 1913)
400
Argh! This macroinvertebrate has one pirate hook, or a tarsal claw, on each leg to hang on tight to rocks and to gather treasure for building a protective case around its body.
What is a caddisfly?
400
This part of a stream habitat is fast-flowing, shallow, rocky, and very rich in oxygen. It is a very important home for animals that can cling on tight to rocks and leaves, such as caddisflies, stoneflies, mayflies, and sculpin!
What is a riffle?
400
This term describes the nest made by trout.
What is a redd?
Trout lay their eggs in nests in rocks and gravel at the bottom of the stream. The female (hen) builds the nest, usually between November and January, when the water is cold and carrying lots of oxygen.
400
What makes YOU an important young woman in STREAM?
The future of fresh water
starts with you!