A Guide to the Identification of Common Aquatic Benthic Macroinvertebrate Families of California and Western North America

The newest edition of our identification guide contains updated descriptions of 9 orders and 76 families of bottom dwelling aquatic insects. Every page has new explanatory color photographs and/or illustrations along with key taxonomic characteristics, biological information, California tolerance values, primary feeding groups, and tips to help you separate each family from similar ones. In addition, we have included a special chapter for 12 non-insect taxa with descriptions and images to aid identification. New to this edition are tables listing the distribution of each family throughout the Western states, revised pages on biology and metamorphosis, and an updated glossary. The Bug Book is printed in a user-friendly binder format with room for your own notes and comments.

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The following is a list of our more recent reports. The management plans form the basis for much of our work.

• Deer Creek Watershed Restoration Plan (without appendices), published March 2011 (26 MB).
• Report: Stocking Flat Pilot Restoration Project, published May 2009 (464 KB).
• Report: Friends of Deer Creek Bacteria Study: E. coli Contamination in Squirrel Creek, published March 2009 (13.8 MB).
• Progress report: Legacy Sediment and the Next Generation: Restoration and Education in Deer Creek, published 2009 (52 KB).
• Report: Deer Creek Watershed Mercury Survey, published June 2008 (2.5 MB).
• Water Monitoring Quality Assurance Plan, for the Yuba Watershed Council, published June 30, 2008 (3.5 MB).
• Report: Lake Wildwood Reservoir Drawdown Report--2007, published August 2008 (968 KB).
• Management Plan: Deer Creek Coordinated Resource Management Plan, Executive Summary, published March 2004 (20 MB).
• Management Plan: Deer Creek Coordinated Resource Management Plan, complete report with appendices, published March 2004 (61.3 MB).