Fraser Stream Wildlife.

After our ' Nature Trail" it was lunchtime.                                                                     

We sat on rugs.
We put all of our rubbish back in our bags.

KP showed us a poster of
New Zealand Freshwater Invertebrates.

Then we got nets and went to the stream
to see what we could find.

We lifted rocks and looked underneath them.
This rock has a lot of Caddisflys on it.
Three of them are standing on end.
If fresh water has this type of Caddis in it,
it means the water quality is very good, with little pollution.

This rock has a lot of eggs under it.

This rock has 'Stonefly caddis.

The Stonefly builds a little case using tiny rocks
and sticks it on to a bigger stone.

This stone has Stonefly Cases on it ,
as well as little green eggs.
We carefully placed the rocks back in the river 
where they came from.

Does anyone know what these are?
Robert found them.
Are they animal or vegetable?
They look as if something has hatched out of them.


We looked in our buckets to see what we had caught.

This is a Mayfly,

These are Caddisflies.

It was exciting looking at our discoveries!

This dish has a Mayfly, some Caddisflies and 

a little Water Snail in it.

We tipped everything back into the water.