Join your Friends to look for stoneflies! Stoneflies are a primitive group of insects named for their habitat of crawling on stones in a river. Most stoneflies have high oxygen needs, restricting them to clean well-oxygenated streams. Because of this, they are good indicators of stream quality. Some stoneflies hatch in winter, which is why […]

Rivers are full of life, even in the depths of winter! Together with the St. Clair County Parks and Recreation Commission, we invite you to join us as we enter streams on a hunt for the elusive winter stonefly. These tiny insects, equipped with a natural-antifreeze, spend most of their lives as nymphs in the […]