Posted by admin | Posted in Articales | Posted on 10-03-2010
Animals in ‘muddy water’ and their adaptations?
Hi there! My little sister is doing a biology assignment and can’t for the life of her find out what she needs to know on the internet (shock!horror!). So we were wondering if you could help.
She needs to knows an adaptation (each) of the following animals for the habitat of muddy water (bracken water?).
Example: Diatom – can live as a single, unicellular organism.
Her list:
– Rotifers
– Yellow Bladder Wort
– Water Lily
– Leech
– Water Boatman
– Shrimp
– May Fly Nymph
– Caddis Larva
– Gambusia
– Water Scorpion
– Damselfly Nymph
We would appreciate it if anyone could answer ANY of the above (does not have to be all of them).
Guess I am not sure about the question of adaptation…since the answer for diatom is just a simple description of one, not a listed adaptation. Also muddy means silty and cloudy water from clays or easily suspended sediment…brackish (bracken???) means partially saltwater like and estuary where the river meets the sea.
But back to your list!
rotifers are small members of the zooplankton that are mostly (but not all) free swimming and eating tiny plants (like diatoms!).
Leeches are annelid worms (related to earthworms) that may attach and suck body fluids from other animals to live but many eat decaying material in the bottom of the pond and do not suck blood.
Water boatmen (family: Corixidae) are everywhere! They can be predators or detritivores and are important food for larger invertebrates, fish, and birds.
May fly and damselfly nymphs and caddisfly larvae are common, freshwater aquatic insects where the young stages live in water and eat plant material or decaying matter (mayflies, caddisflies) or are predators (damselflies). The adults of those larvae are free-flying terrestrial insects that often don’t live nearly as long as the larvae (usually just long enough to mate and lay eggs).
Gambusia is the genus name of the common mosquitofish, introduced everywhere by people to help control mosquitos in wetlands and rice fields….but they do not eat mosquitos preferentially…just any small thing that is swimming in the water, really.
The links are info at several different learning levels.
Enjoy!
Tony’s Isonychia Nymph – March 2009 TPO Fly of the Month
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Hooked On Fly Tying, HDT2 Classic Wet Flies & Nymphs – Dick Talleur [VHS] $19.95 Columnist, author, photographer, guide and recognized fly tying authority is your guide through learning the intricate and delicate techniques of tying a variety of very effective flies. Not only do you learn to tie the specific patterns in these tapes, but the techniques, style and tricks that you encounter with these flies can be applied to many other patterns. ••• Grouse & Green… |
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Nymph Fly-Tying Techniques $33.98 Over 1,000 Color Photos of Techniques and Pattern Styles Noted photographer and author, Jim Schollmeyer, now puts his talents to tying nymphs. More than just a book of nymph patterns, this book takes a different approach. Realizing that many nymph patterns have evolved from variations on a handful of basic designs and tying techniques, Jim has written on these evolutions and how your repertoire of flies can be broadened by seeing how a variety of modifications can be worked into fly designs to produce the desired appearance or behavior. With his crisp step-by-step photos and concise text, Jim Schollmeyer has done it again, another great fly-tying technique book. |
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Nymph $17.32 Buy and sell [Nymph] at great prices. |
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Nymph Fishing for Larger Trout $75.03 DIVSince nymph comprise more than 90 percent of a trout’s normal diet, nymph imitations are potentially the most effective flies for trout – particularly large fish that rarely feed on the surface. Yet nymph fishing remains one of the most difficult and demanding forms of fly-fishing, often shrouded in mystery or half knowledge. Nymph Fishing For Larger Trout will take its place as one of the few real contributions to this important phase of angling. It is a down-to-earth, practical, and highly perceptive book for all fly-fishermen who want to improve their skills.Charles Brooks – already widely acclaimed for his practical, outspoken, and original books on angling – has written a thorough guide to nymph fishing. There are chapters on The Problem of Identification’ and the Characteristic Nymphs, Larvae, and Crustaceans. After a helpful guide to the best tackle you will need, he presents in depth the Skues, Hewitt, Sawyer, Leisenring, upstream, Continuous Drift, Pot-Shooting, and other methods – and then his own, the Brooks method. He places special emphasis on catching those larger trout we all seek, and presents a full treatment of the most effective patterns.Graced by Dave Whitlock’s fine line drawings, superb photographs of water types, and four pages of flies in color, Nymph Fishing For Larger Trout is sure to become one of the most important books in the fly-fisherman’s library. (7 X 10, 196 pages, color photos, b&w photos, illustrations, diagrams, charts)br/div |
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