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Australians are encouraged to become ‘citizen scientists’ and investigate how healthy their local waterways are, by exploring and identifying waterbugs

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Looking for a great short documentary to watch this week! Check out John Gooderham's new doco on waterbugs in 'Build Me A River' talking about habitats and some of Tasmania's coolest critters. ow.ly/TVEN50EYvGG #waterbugblitz #aquaticmacroinvertebrates #citizenscience
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Newcastle, NSW - City of Newcastle is hosting two Waterbug Blitz Workshops next week. You can come to either Wed 26th or Sat 29th May at Club Kotara. Please register to attend. Greg and I (Ingrid) will be your trainers for both days and love to see our waterbug friends there!
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Waterbug Wednesday time! Who are we? Tell us using the Waterbug App to identify what family this waterbug is from. #waterbugblitz #waterbug #waterbugs #citizenscience #taxonomy #aquatic #macroinvertebrates #catchmentsmatter #aquatichealth #rivers #STEM #australia
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A fantastic new education resource is now available for the Waterbug Blitz community for explaining how habitat and bug sensitivity works! Head to our website's Education Resource page to download this poster! Massive thanks to @hunterlls and @peekdesignsAU for sharing this!
Happy Global Citizen Science Month! Head out to do a Waterbug Blitz this month to help contribute to collecting data for Australia's freshwater rivers & wetlands this April! Head to waterbugblitz.org.au to find out more! #waterbugblitz #citizenscience #citizensciencemonth
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Waterbug Wednesday.....belated edition! Apologies everyone! [Ingrid] This week's who am I is...... Photo credit: John Gooderham #waterbugblitz #waterbug #aquaticmacroinvertebrates #citizenscience #thewaterbugapp #taxonomy #catchmentsmatter #aquaticecology #riverhealth
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It’s World Water Day! A nod to all our amazing waterways & people who care for them. And our thoughts & love go to our friends who are experiencing flooding in NSW at the moment! Stay safe & take care of yourselves! #waterbugblitz #waterbugs #cItizenscience #catchmentsmatter
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Waterbug Wednesday...who are we? These guys are from a local farm dam near my place. Have you check out who’s living in a dam, pond or wetland near you lately? #waterbugs #waterbugblitz #waterbugwednesday #citizenscience #thewaterbugapp #taxonomy #aquaticmacroinvertebrates
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@Jane_HRRT Yes! Leptoceridae were the winners at the bottom for this week! Great job & thanks 🙏
Waterbug Wednesday is here!! Who am I? Many thanks to the great photo from @VarleyNathan from Sutherland Shire, NSW. Thanks Nathan!!! Use #thewaterbugapp to tell us which critter this is! #waterbugblitz #aquaticmacroinvertebrates #citizenscience #STEM #taxonomy #waterbugs
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Some great #waterbugs from Victorian High Country Landcare Facilitator Lisa Lee from a recent #waterbugblitz at Omeo, VIC. Thanks for sharing team! #landcarevictoria #northeastcma #landcarevic #citizenscience #highcountry #omeolandcare
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Repost from @TheWaterbugShop “Can’t resist a creek break on a bush walk and then I just have to lift the odd cobble. Happy to find a Corydalidae on this one. Hard to…” instagram.com/p/CK22PkmAQxw/…