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Riverfly Competition for the best riverfly photograph
A Riverfly Partnership / Royal Entomological Society initiative
The National Insect Week competition for the best riverfly photograph closed on 31 October 2008. Many thanks to all those that entered. Prize winners will be announced on Friday 5 December. Prizes, sponsored by the Riverfly Partnership and the Environment Agency, include:
1st - £500
2nd - £250
3rd x 2 – Life in the Undergrowth book, by David Attenborough. Signed by the author
Runners up x 3 - Life in the Undergrowth book by David Attenborough
Dr Cyril Bennett, mayfly expert, photographer and fly-fisherman, founder member of the Riverfly Partnership; Peter Lapsley, fly-fisherman, well-known angling journalist, author and photographer; and Prof. Chris Haines, NIW Coordinator for the Royal Entomological Society will judge the entries. The media partner is BBC Wildlife magazine.
BBC4 Riverflies on Born to be Wild 10 July 2008 19.30hrs
The Born to be Wild series, running 3 July - 10 August, highlighted The Riverfly Partership monitoring work being carried out by Dai Roberts, Rob Williams, Alan Howles and team of the Rhymney & Sirhowy Monitoring Group in their Bug programme. A stream of the footage will be added at a later date.
People become enthusiastic about the strangest things. Take bugs.... This series charts the work of amateur naturalists. Dai Roberts regularly counts the bugs in the River Rhymney in South Wales to monitor the environment.
BBC 1 Nature of Britain Series - BBC Wales Oct 2007
The monitoring work being carried out by the Rhymney & Sirhowy Monitoring Group - part of the Riverfly Partnership Anglers Monitoring Initiative - was highlighted in Freshwater Britain on Wednesday 31st October.
Ephemera danica - Freshwater Forum Sept 07
‘A seven year study of the life cycle of the mayfly Ephemera danica’ by
Contact Karen Rouen from Freshwater Biological Association by email KRouen@fba.org.uk for further information / copies.
Salmon and Trout Association River Fly Survey Report - 2006 Season
» S&TA River Fly Survey Report - 2006 Season – PDF-File, 1.5 MB
Conservation status for British riverflies Oct 07
The Riverfly Recording Scheme Coordinators, Craig Macadam , David Pryce and Ian Wallace have worked with Buglife - The Invertebrate Conservation Trust to ensure that eight species of riverfy qualify for conservation status on the new Biodiversity Action Plan Species list. Inclusion on the list means that there is government commitment to support conservation measures for these species. The riverfly species included are:
Ephemeroptera Nigrobaetis niger Southern Iron Blue, Potamanthus luteus Yellow MayflyPlecoptera Brachyptera putata Northern February Red, Isogenus nubecula Rare medium stonefly
Trichoptera Glossosoma intermedium Small Grey Sedge, Hagenella clathrata Window Winged Sedge, Hydropsyche bulgaromanorum Grey Flag, Ironoquia dubia Scarce Brown Sedge
