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Invertebrate census, Finchfield Brook, May 2014

Water slater, Asellus aquaticus

Finchfield Waterside Care are a FIN (Freshwater Invertebrate Network) group. They carry out regular censuses of the section of the Finchfield Brook which runs along the border of Turner’s Field by Smestow School – this was yesterday.

Among the findings netted: water slaters, which are freshwater-living relatives of woodlice; mayfly larvae, and the ever so tiny Jenkinsspire shell snail.