Animal?

[manumanumanu]

Hello,
i found this 'thing' in a sample of stream's water. This seems to me an animal. Does someone recognise it??
The magnification is 100x in the first photo and 400x in the other two photo (where is focused the supposed head).
Thanks
Emanuele

[Red_Green]

Blackflies and midges

[75RR]

Not sure where you are located (another reason for members to indicate location?) but if in Europe you might find this relevant:

https://www.limnology-journal.org/artic ... 743p61.pdf

[Red_Green]

Not sure where you are located (another reason for members to indicate location?) but if in Europe you might find this relevant:

https://www.limnology-journal.org/artic ... 743p61.pdf

I'm in Canada, the guide is still relevant though and is very useful. So useful in fact it has already helped me. Interestingly enough, this morning had to clean out my aquarium (pond scum tank) filter and found a worm. So I made a slide mount of it. I didn't know what it was. After reading the guide you linked I was able to identify this as a cranefly larvae.

Thanks for that.