📍 U10: Gaunts (downstream of Amwell Magna Fishing Club)

River: Lea Catchment: Upper Lea (Hertfordshire) Filter(s): 86

Your Site at a Glance

265
Species Detected
185
Genera Identified
95
Families Found
755,981
DNA Sequences

How Your Site Compares

Metric Your Site Lea Average Study Average
Species 265 251 206
Genera 185 174 151
Families 95 87 83
EPT Families 8 6 6

Rank 6 of 10 on Lea Rank 20 of 81 in study

🌊 Water Quality Indicators

Good

BMWP score: 141 (Very Good) — ASPT score: 5.9 (Good)

24 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)
67 (25.3%)
2. Naididae (Aquatic Oligochaetes)
28 (10.6%)
3. Cyprinidae (Carp and Allies)
10 (3.8%)
4. Simuliidae (Black Flies)
7 (2.6%)
5. Lumbricidae (Common Earthworms)
5 (1.9%)
6. Baetidae (Small Mayflies)
5 (1.9%)
7. Salmonidae (Salmon and Trout)
5 (1.9%)
8. Anatidae (Ducks, Geese, and Swans)
5 (1.9%)
9. Synchaetidae (Synchaetidae)
4 (1.5%)
10. Percidae (Perches and Darters)
3 (1.1%)
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
21/33 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

22 fish species detected (9 families, 171 ESVs)
SpeciesFamilyESVs
Salmo trutta (Brown Trout / Sea Trout) Salmonidae 10
Phoxinus phoxinus (Minnow) Cyprinidae 10
Gobio gobio (Gudgeon) Cyprinidae 9
Gasterosteus aculeatus (Three-spined Stickleback) Gasterosteidae 7
Leuciscus leuciscus (Dace) Cyprinidae 7
Barbatula barbatula (Stone Loach) Nemacheilidae 6
Squalius cephalus (Chub) Cyprinidae 6
Trachurus lathami Carangidae 4
Thymallus aeliani Salmonidae 4
Barbus barbus (Barbel) Cyprinidae 4
Cottus bairdii Cottidae 3
Gymnocephalus ambriaelacus Percidae 3
Gymnocephalus acerina Percidae 2
Rutilus frisii Cyprinidae 2
Gobio kovatschevi Cyprinidae 1

🪰 EPT Species (Mayflies, Stoneflies & Caddisflies)

14 EPT species detected (8 families, 24 ESVs — E:9 / P:0 / T:5)
SpeciesFamilyESVs
Ephemeroptera (Mayflies)
Baetis scambus (Small Dark Olive) Baetidae 3
Baetis vernus (Medium Olive) Baetidae 3
Ephemera danica (The Mayfly) Ephemeridae 3
Baetis rhodani (Large Dark Olive) Baetidae 2
Paraleptophlebia submarginata (Turkey Brown) Leptophlebiidae 2
Cloeon dipterum (Pond Olive) Baetidae 1
Procloeon pennulatum (Large Spurwing) Baetidae 1
Caenis luctuosa (Angler's Curse) Caenidae 1
Ephemera vulgata (Drake Mackerel) Ephemeridae 1
Trichoptera (Caddisflies)
Silo nigricornis (Humpless Case-maker Caddisflies) Goeridae 2
Hydroptila sparsa (Microcaddisflies) Hydroptilidae 2
Goera pilosa (Humpless Case-maker Caddisflies) Goeridae 1
Glyphotaelius pellucidus (Northern Caddisflies) Limnephilidae 1
Phryganea grandis (Large Case-maker Caddisflies) Phryganeidae 1

🔗 Your Ecological Twin

Most similar site: A9 - Watersplace Farm
River: Ash (different river)
Similarity: 38% of species shared
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