Role in the food chain. They are food to the bigger fish in lakes. They also are eaten by parasitic round worms, flys, water beetles, frogs, and birds. The mayfly eggs can also be eaten by snails, and caddisfly larvae.

An orb snail is also known as a ramshorn snail. Means the great ramshorn in latin. The great ramshorn is referring to the way the shell is shaped. The orb snail is a semi. You can tell the water pollution level by what macroinvertebrates are in the water.

Did you know that there are four different kinds of Pouch Snails. Did you know that a Pouch Snail is not a gilled snail. It is a lung breathing snail instead. Did you know that unlike other snails the Pouch Snail is a left opening snail where others are right opening snails. Did you know that a Pouch Snail is very tolerant to pollution.

Flatworms can grow up to 20 millimeters long. Are many types of Flatworms,. This website is about a specific. Of the most common types of. Water like streams, lakes, and ponds. Most Flatworms they like living in the shallow.

jpg 1024 784 - 282k - jpg. You may know the Horse Flies as a blood sucking fly but this plays a big part in the worlds ecosystem. A horse flys scientific name is Tabanoidae, they were named in English in the Oxford English dictionary in the middle ages.