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                                                                                                                                  Planet Pond

                                                                                                                                  A horde of young explorers, shallow water, nets, big white buckets, (or frisbees, or trays), some field guides, and wet feet: all you need to explore the waters in our backyard or yours. Below are links to websites with more info on the critters! These were found in various shallow waters in southcentral PA. Identification of the following critters is subject to revision (my cousin is a PhD-bearing entomologist, I am an amateur naturalist and kayaker with a whole shipload of random field guides...).
                                                                                                                                  who's this??? scroll down to find out!

                                                                                                                                  Planet Stream

                                                                                                                                  some links to identification

                                                                                                                                  http://www.penobscotswcd.org/publications/insects.pdf
                                                                                                                                  http://bugguide.net/node/view/195
                                                                                                                                  http://bugguide.net/node/view/125789
                                                                                                                                  http://bugguide.net/index.php?q=search&keys=giant+water+bug&search=Search
                                                                                                                                  http://www.bio.davidson.edu/people/midorcas/research/Contribute/box%20turtle/boxinfo.htm
                                                                                                                                  http://zanephotoblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/spiders-silver-marsh-spider-and-long.html
                                                                                                                                  http://bugguide.net/node/view/65152
                                                                                                                                  http://bugguide.net/index.php?q=search&keys=damselfly+nymph&search=Search
                                                                                                                                  http://people.virginia.edu/~sos-iwla/Stream-Study/Catalog/FGGilledSnail.HTML
                                                                                                                                  http://islandwood.org/kids/stream_health/macros/Orb_snail.html
                                                                                                                                  http://pubs.cas.psu.edu/FreePubs/pdfs/agrs110.pdf
                                                                                                                                  http://www.google.com/search?q=pouch+snail&hl=en&biw=1280&bih=873&prmd=ivns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=jLYETteAIYGssAOQgfHeDQ&sqi=2&ved=0CCAQsAQ


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