📍 A7: Hoghams

River: Ash Catchment: Upper Lea (Hertfordshire) Filter(s): 136

Your Site at a Glance

249
Species Detected
184
Genera Identified
102
Families Found
638,917
DNA Sequences

How Your Site Compares

Metric Your Site Ash Average Study Average
Species 249 211 206
Genera 184 159 151
Families 102 93 83
EPT Families 9 9 6

Rank 2 of 7 on Ash Rank 28 of 81 in study

🌊 Water Quality Indicators

Very Good

BMWP score: 138 (Very Good) — ASPT score: 6.3 (Excellent)

22 scoring macroinvertebrate families detected

Near-natural conditions with an unpolluted, diverse macroinvertebrate community.

🔍 Notable Findings

Conservation Species:

Invasive Species:

🦋 Top 10 Families at Your Site

1. Chironomidae (Non-biting Midges)
55 (22.1%)
2. Naididae (Aquatic Oligochaetes)
27 (10.8%)
3. Lumbricidae (Common Earthworms)
6 (2.4%)
4. Cyclopidae (Cyclopoid Copepods)
5 (2.0%)
5. Simuliidae (Black Flies)
5 (2.0%)
6. Enchytraeidae (Potworms)
4 (1.6%)
7. Tipulidae (Crane Flies)
4 (1.6%)
8. Baetidae (Small Mayflies)
4 (1.6%)
9. Psychodidae (Moth Flies)
4 (1.6%)
10. Ectopsocidae (Ectopsocid Barklice)
4 (1.6%)
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
19/33 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

7 fish species detected (6 families, 37 ESVs)
SpeciesFamilyESVs
Phoxinus phoxinus (Minnow) Cyprinidae 8
Salmo trutta (Brown Trout / Sea Trout) Salmonidae 4
Squalius cephalus (Chub) Cyprinidae 3
Gasterosteus aculeatus (Three-spined Stickleback) Gasterosteidae 3
Potamorrhaphis guianensis Belonidae 2
Barbatula barbatula (Stone Loach) Nemacheilidae 2
Cottus bairdii Cottidae 1

🪰 EPT Species (Mayflies, Stoneflies & Caddisflies)

16 EPT species detected (9 families, 37 ESVs — E:9 / P:2 / T:5)
SpeciesFamilyESVs
Ephemeroptera (Mayflies)
Paraleptophlebia submarginata (Turkey Brown) Leptophlebiidae 5
Habrophlebia fusca (Ditch Dun) Leptophlebiidae 4
Baetis vernus (Medium Olive) Baetidae 3
Baetis rhodani (Large Dark Olive) Baetidae 2
Centroptilum luteolum (Small Spurwing) Baetidae 2
Serratella ignita (Blue Winged Olive) Ephemerellidae 2
Baetis scambus (Small Dark Olive) Baetidae 1
Ephemera danica (The Mayfly) Ephemeridae 1
Ephemera vulgata (Drake Mackerel) Ephemeridae 1
Plecoptera (Stoneflies)
Leuctra fusca (Late Needle Fly) Leuctridae 5
Leuctra digitata (Rolled-winged Stoneflies) Leuctridae 3
Trichoptera (Caddisflies)
Hydroptila sparsa (Microcaddisflies) Hydroptilidae 3
Glyphotaelius pellucidus (Northern Caddisflies) Limnephilidae 2
Silo nigricornis (Humpless Case-maker Caddisflies) Goeridae 1
Hydroptila vectis (Microcaddisflies) Hydroptilidae 1
Lepidostoma hirtum (Lepidostomatid Caddisflies) Lepidostomatidae 1

🔗 Your Ecological Twin

Most similar site: A9 - Watersplace Farm
River: Ash (same river)
Similarity: 48% of species shared
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249 Species detected at this site — CSV format, opens in Excel

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