Rusty crayfish eDNA validation

A few years ago, while working with the Cayuga Lake Floating Classroom, I had the pleasure of bringing schoolchildren to the stream to muck around for macroinvertebrates. No matter how impressive the size of the hellgrammite (a.k.a dobsonfly), the sight of a crayfish will almost always garner all the kids’ attention. More often than not, Read More…