📍 R7: Standon A120 Road Bridge

River: Rib Catchment: Upper Lea (Hertfordshire) Filter(s): 135

Your Site at a Glance

198
Species Detected
155
Genera Identified
90
Families Found
1,011,220
DNA Sequences

How Your Site Compares

Metric Your Site Rib Average Study Average
Species 198 160 206
Genera 155 123 151
Families 90 72 83
EPT Families 9 5 6

Rank 3 of 9 on Rib Rank 48 of 81 in study

🌊 Water Quality Indicators

Good

BMWP score: 114 (Very Good) — ASPT score: 6.0 (Good)

19 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)
49 (24.7%)
2. Naididae (Aquatic Oligochaetes)
16 (8.1%)
3. Lumbricidae (Common Earthworms)
7 (3.5%)
4. Cyclopidae (Cyclopoid Copepods)
4 (2.0%)
5. Simuliidae (Black Flies)
4 (2.0%)
6. Psychodidae (Moth Flies)
4 (2.0%)
7. Ectopsocidae (Ectopsocid Barklice)
4 (2.0%)
8. Tipulidae (Crane Flies)
4 (2.0%)
9. Enchytraeidae (Potworms)
3 (1.5%)
10. Lumbriculidae (Aquatic Earthworms)
3 (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 ✓
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

8 fish species detected (7 families, 58 ESVs)
SpeciesFamilyESVs
Gasterosteus aculeatus (Three-spined Stickleback) Gasterosteidae 7
Phoxinus phoxinus (Minnow) Cyprinidae 5
Salmo trutta (Brown Trout / Sea Trout) Salmonidae 3
Potamorrhaphis guianensis Belonidae 2
Cottus bairdii Cottidae 2
Trachurus lathami Carangidae 2
Barbatula barbatula (Stone Loach) Nemacheilidae 2
Oncorhynchus gorbuscha (Pink Salmon) Salmonidae 1

🪰 EPT Species (Mayflies, Stoneflies & Caddisflies)

12 EPT species detected (9 families, 22 ESVs — E:4 / P:3 / T:5)
SpeciesFamilyESVs
Ephemeroptera (Mayflies)
Paraleptophlebia submarginata (Turkey Brown) Leptophlebiidae 4
Baetis rhodani (Large Dark Olive) Baetidae 3
Baetis vernus (Medium Olive) Baetidae 2
Ephemera danica (The Mayfly) Ephemeridae 1
Plecoptera (Stoneflies)
Leuctra fusca (Late Needle Fly) Leuctridae 3
Leuctra digitata (Rolled-winged Stoneflies) Leuctridae 2
Nemurella pictetii (Pictet's Stonefly) Nemouridae 1
Trichoptera (Caddisflies)
Limnephilus extricatus (Northern Caddisflies) Limnephilidae 2
Apatania vepsica (Apataniid Caddisflies) Apataniidae 1
Silo nigricornis (Humpless Case-maker Caddisflies) Goeridae 1
Hydroptila sparsa (Microcaddisflies) Hydroptilidae 1
Glyphotaelius pellucidus (Northern Caddisflies) Limnephilidae 1

🔗 Your Ecological Twin

Most similar site: R9 - Wadesmill - Old Church Lane
River: Rib (same river)
Similarity: 44% of species shared
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