📍 A5: Hadham Mill

River: Ash Catchment: Upper Lea (Hertfordshire) Filter(s): 110

Your Site at a Glance

131
Species Detected
105
Genera Identified
62
Families Found
875,983
DNA Sequences

How Your Site Compares

Metric Your Site Ash Average Study Average
Species 131 211 206
Genera 105 159 151
Families 62 93 83
EPT Families 8 9 6

Rank 6 of 7 on Ash Rank 66 of 81 in study

🌊 Water Quality Indicators

Good

BMWP score: 126 (Very Good) — ASPT score: 6.0 (Good)

21 scoring macroinvertebrate families detected

Clean water with slight impacts; a healthy community of macroinvertebrate families is present.

🔍 Notable Findings

Conservation Species:

Invasive Species:

🦋 Top 10 Families at Your Site

1. Chironomidae (Non-biting Midges)
36 (27.5%)
2. Naididae (Aquatic Oligochaetes)
13 (9.9%)
3. Cyclopidae (Cyclopoid Copepods)
3 (2.3%)
4. Lumbricidae (Common Earthworms)
3 (2.3%)
5. Goeridae (Humpless Case-maker Caddisflies)
3 (2.3%)
6. Ectopsocidae (Ectopsocid Barklice)
3 (2.3%)
7. Limnephilidae (Northern Caddisflies)
3 (2.3%)
8. Simuliidae (Black Flies)
2 (1.5%)
9. Dixidae (Dixid Midges)
2 (1.5%)
10. Baetidae (Small Mayflies)
2 (1.5%)
Taxonomic composition

🪲 Extended Riverfly Taxa

1 Flatworms 18Dragonflies and Damselflies
2 Freshwater Snails 19Water Boatmen
3 Limpets 20Other Water Bugs
4 Bivalves 21Water Beetles
5 Aquatic Worms 22Alderflies
6 Leeches 23Caseless Caddisflies - Green Sedge
7 Crayfish 24Caseless Caddisflies - Net Spinners
8 Water Hoglouse 25Caseless Caddisflies - Non-Gilled
9 Freshwater Shrimps 26Cased Caddisflies - Hood Case-Maker
10 Invasive Non-Native Shrimps 27Cased Caddisflies - Weighted Case-Maker
11 Mayflies - Angler's Curse 28Cased Caddisflies - Bush Tailed Caddisfly
12 Mayflies - Olives 29Cased Caddisflies - Other
13 Mayflies - Prong Gilled 30Craneflies
14 Mayflies - Flatbodied 31Blackflies
15 Mayflies - Green Drake 32Non-Biting Midges
16 Mayflies - Blue-Winged Olive 33Water Snipe Flies
17 Stoneflies
20/33 Extended Riverfly taxa detected

Note: The Extended Riverfly Monitoring Initiative calculates scores based on abundance categories, which cannot be determined from eDNA presence/absence data. This checklist shows which taxa groups were detected but does not constitute an official ARMI score.

🐟 Fish Species

5 fish species detected (5 families, 17 ESVs)
SpeciesFamilyESVs
Salmo trutta (Brown Trout / Sea Trout) Salmonidae 3
Cottus bairdii Cottidae 1
Phoxinus phoxinus (Minnow) Cyprinidae 1
Squalius cephalus (Chub) Cyprinidae 1
Gasterosteus aculeatus (Three-spined Stickleback) Gasterosteidae 1

🪰 EPT Species (Mayflies, Stoneflies & Caddisflies)

15 EPT species detected (8 families, 23 ESVs — E:6 / P:2 / T:7)
SpeciesFamilyESVs
Ephemeroptera (Mayflies)
Baetis rhodani (Large Dark Olive) Baetidae 2
Ephemera danica (The Mayfly) Ephemeridae 2
Paraleptophlebia submarginata (Turkey Brown) Leptophlebiidae 2
Baetis scambus (Small Dark Olive) Baetidae 1
Serratella ignita (Blue Winged Olive) Ephemerellidae 1
Habrophlebia fusca (Ditch Dun) Leptophlebiidae 1
Plecoptera (Stoneflies)
Leuctra fusca (Late Needle Fly) Leuctridae 4
Leuctra digitata (Rolled-winged Stoneflies) Leuctridae 1
Trichoptera (Caddisflies)
Silo pallipes (Humpless Case-maker Caddisflies) Goeridae 2
Glyphotaelius pellucidus (Northern Caddisflies) Limnephilidae 2
Goera pilosa (Humpless Case-maker Caddisflies) Goeridae 1
Silo nigricornis (Humpless Case-maker Caddisflies) Goeridae 1
Hydroptila vectis (Microcaddisflies) Hydroptilidae 1
Chaetopteryx villosa (Northern Caddisflies) Limnephilidae 1
Halesus radiatus (Northern Caddisflies) Limnephilidae 1

🔗 Your Ecological Twin

Most similar site: A6 - Widford STW Upstream
River: Ash (same river)
Similarity: 36% of species shared
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131 Species detected at this site — CSV format, opens in Excel

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