> I stopped on my way home from work to collect some daphnia from a small
> seepage pond that takes the water runoff from our National Guard Armory
> parking lot/streets. The pond is about 100 feet long by 20 feet wide by 4
or
> 5 feet deep. I've been stopping there weekly for about a month now and
> usually catch about a half cup of daphnia in about 5 minutes. I stand in
one
> place at the shore and do figure eights with my finemesh dipnet. In the
past
> 3 weeks, I've caught mostly pinhead sized daphnia that were a pinkish or
> nearly clear with a slight hint of green. Well, tonight I probably got
over
> a cup-full with at least 1/3 of all the daphnia being large adults and all
> were a vivid green like the color of fresh-mowed lawn only with a smidgen
of
> yellow blended in. They looked like pieces and particles of algae, but it
> was 100% deep green-colored daphnia! If the numbers extrapolate for the
> entire pool, I'll bet there are billions of daphnia in that small pond.
And
> I checked another, shallower pond a hundred yards away and came away with
> zero daphnia; go figure.
> Bruce Scott
> Meridian, Idaho
>
>
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