Lake Champlain at Oakledge Park

Oakledge is a public Park in Burlington Vermont. Saint Michael's College students visit the park and sample benthic invertebrates from Lake Champlain as part of a Community Ecology course. We have a fairly comprehensive data set developed over the years yet we frequently find genera that we have not previously sampled. Use the history tab to see what was added this year. is The following are the most common invertebrates collected from this site.

We get two hydroptilid caddisflies at this site. Agraylea often has strands of algae attached. Hydroptila has fine sand grains.