📍 C5: Latimer Bridge

River: Chess Catchment: Colne Filter(s): 39

Your Site at a Glance

23
Species Detected
22
Genera Identified
19
Families Found
293,453
DNA Sequences

How Your Site Compares

Metric Your Site Chess Average Study Average
Species 23 197 206
Genera 22 146 151
Families 19 84 83
EPT Families 2 6 6

Rank 10 of 10 on Chess Rank 80 of 81 in study

🌊 Water Quality Indicators

Poor

BMWP score: 32 (Poor) — ASPT score: 5.3 (Good)

6 scoring macroinvertebrate families detected

Indicators suggest polluted or significantly impacted water quality at this site.

🔍 Notable Findings

Conservation Species:

Invasive Species:

🦋 Top 10 Families at Your Site

1. Erebidae (Tiger Moths)
2 (8.7%)
2. Cicadellidae (Leafhoppers)
2 (8.7%)
3. Chironomidae (Non-biting Midges)
2 (8.7%)
4. Cyprinidae (Carp and Allies)
2 (8.7%)
5. Linyphiidae (Money Spiders)
1 (4.3%)
6. Erpobdellidae (Jawless Leeches)
1 (4.3%)
7. Dictynidae (Mesh-web Spiders)
1 (4.3%)
8. Drosophilidae (Vinegar Flies)
1 (4.3%)
9. Asilidae (Robber Flies)
1 (4.3%)
10. Lygaeidae (Seed Bugs)
1 (4.3%)
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 ✗
6/33 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

4 fish species detected (4 families, 9 ESVs)
SpeciesFamilyESVs
Phoxinus phoxinus (Minnow) Cyprinidae 2
Squalius cephalus (Chub) Cyprinidae 2
Gasterosteus aculeatus (Three-spined Stickleback) Gasterosteidae 2
Barbatula barbatula (Stone Loach) Nemacheilidae 1

🪰 EPT Species (Mayflies, Stoneflies & Caddisflies)

2 EPT species detected (2 families, 3 ESVs — E:0 / P:0 / T:2)
SpeciesFamilyESVs
Trichoptera (Caddisflies)
Leptocerus tineiformis (Long-horned Caddisflies) Leptoceridae 2
Enoicyla pusilla (Northern Caddisflies) Limnephilidae 1

🔗 Your Ecological Twin

Most similar site: H7 - Pheasant's Hill
River: Hamble Brook (different river)
Similarity: 21% of species shared
Download Data

23 Species detected at this site — CSV format, opens in Excel

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