📍 MM6B: Sherrardswood

River: Mimram Catchment: Upper Lea (Hertfordshire) Filter(s): 124

Your Site at a Glance

209
Species Detected
155
Genera Identified
84
Families Found
675,013
DNA Sequences

How Your Site Compares

Metric Your Site Mimram Average Study Average
Species 209 204 206
Genera 155 151 151
Families 84 77 83
EPT Families 7 8 6

Rank 5 of 10 on Mimram Rank 43 of 81 in study

🌊 Water Quality Indicators

Good

BMWP score: 98 (Good) — ASPT score: 6.1 (Excellent)

16 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)
34 (16.3%)
2. Naididae (Aquatic Oligochaetes)
33 (15.8%)
3. Lumbricidae (Common Earthworms)
9 (4.3%)
4. Enchytraeidae (Potworms)
8 (3.8%)
5. Anatidae (Ducks, Geese, and Swans)
6 (2.9%)
6. Simuliidae (Black Flies)
4 (1.9%)
7. Cyclopidae (Cyclopoid Copepods)
4 (1.9%)
8. Chydoridae (Chydorid Water Fleas)
4 (1.9%)
9. Tipulidae (Crane Flies)
4 (1.9%)
10. Lumbriculidae (Aquatic Earthworms)
3 (1.4%)
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 ✓
18/33 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, 31 ESVs)
SpeciesFamilyESVs
Gasterosteus aculeatus (Three-spined Stickleback) Gasterosteidae 5
Salmo trutta (Brown Trout / Sea Trout) Salmonidae 5
Potamorrhaphis guianensis Belonidae 2
Barbatula barbatula (Stone Loach) Nemacheilidae 2
Cottus bairdii Cottidae 1

🪰 EPT Species (Mayflies, Stoneflies & Caddisflies)

9 EPT species detected (7 families, 19 ESVs — E:4 / P:2 / T:3)
SpeciesFamilyESVs
Ephemeroptera (Mayflies)
Baetis vernus (Medium Olive) Baetidae 3
Baetis rhodani (Large Dark Olive) Baetidae 2
Serratella ignita (Blue Winged Olive) Ephemerellidae 2
Paraleptophlebia submarginata (Turkey Brown) Leptophlebiidae 1
Plecoptera (Stoneflies)
Nemurella pictetii (Pictet's Stonefly) Nemouridae 2
Isoperla grammatica (Yellow Sally) Perlodidae 1
Trichoptera (Caddisflies)
Sericostoma personatum (Sericostomatid Caddisflies) Sericostomatidae 4
Glyphotaelius pellucidus (Northern Caddisflies) Limnephilidae 3
Halesus radiatus (Northern Caddisflies) Limnephilidae 1

🔗 Your Ecological Twin

Most similar site: MM7 - Digswell Park Road
River: Mimram (same river)
Similarity: 53% of species shared
Download Data

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

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