Collections from two small Ponds

A Small collection was done at two bodies of water, one a large Pond and the other a semi vernal pool.

The small pond is located in Bristol at the Indian Rock Preserve; the semi vernal pool is located in Woodbury at the Flanders Nature Center.

The Pond yields a total of 11 families, ten insects and one a fresh water crustacean. The vernal pool yields eight families, five insects, to mollusks and one fresh water crustacean.

 

Indian Rock Preserve		Flanders Nature Center
Order	Family	Order	Family
Odonata	Cordulidae	Odonata	Coenagrionidae
	Macromildae	Lepidoptera	Pyralidae
	Lestidae	Tricoptera	Limnephilibidae
	Gomphidae	Megaloptera	Coridulidae
Hemiptera	Nenidae	Molusca	Spheriidae
Tricoptera	Polycetrodidae	Molusca	Physa
	Limnephilidae	Isopoda	Caecidotea
Diptera	Chironomidae
Ephemeroptera	Leptophebidae
Amphipooda	Hyalellidae

 

I found that the Large Pond had more diversity of insects, but the semi vernal pool had more overall diversity of organism.