Salt Creek Watershed Project
Waverly High School Salt Creek Watershed Study
Activies and Sites
Students Visit Salt Creek to Take Samples
Waverly High School students took samples of soil and water to determine what insects, animals, and plants are living there.
The selected sites for the samples were done at the following areas:
- Site 1 - Wilderness Park
- Site 2 - 10th Street near the Army National Guard
- Site 3 - 27th and Cornhusker
- Site 4 - Ashland
These are the different experiments done at Salt Creek:
- Quadrates
- Soil Samples
- Sweeping for Insects
- Collecting and Pressing Plants
- Photographers Print/Digital
- Description of Area
- Signs of Animals
- Macroinvertebrates
Quadrates
Definition: One Square Yard Isolated for Study of Plants and Insects
The charts below represent the average number of insects and plants that were found at the four sites.
Plants
Pictures of plants taken at Salt Creek
Insects
Students Searched for Insects at Salt Creek
Macroinvertebrates
Definition: Larger Spineless Animals Such as Marine Life
Signs of Animals
| Salt Creek Plants and Animals | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Wilderness Park (Site 1) | Oak Lake (Site 2) | Super Saver (Site 3) | Ashland (Site 4) |
| AM Core | AM Core | AM Core | AM Core |
| Plants | Plants | Plants | Plants |
| Downey Goldenrod | Pigweed | Honeyvine Milkweed | |
| Puncture Vein | Carpetweed | Toothed Sporge | |
| Grand Rugweed | Common Ragweed | Common Watercup | |
| Intermediate Dog Bane | Large Crabgrass | Musk Thistle | |
| Bracket Fungus | Dandilion | Henbit | |
| Venus Looking Glass | Sawtooth Sunflower | Dandilion | |
| Prostrate Vervain | Smooth Brome | ||
| Wild Violet | Stinging Nettle | ||
| Dandilion | Woolyleaf Busage | ||
| Wooly Cupgrass | |||
| Black Seed Plantain | |||
| Animals | Animals | Animals | Animals |
| earthworms | Violet Dancer | Deer | Funnel Web Spider |
| termite | Indian Meal Moth | White Footed Mouse | Black Ants |
| beetle | Pillbug | Junco | Night Crawler |
| ants | Solpugida | Dove | Beetle Larva |
| Dcinastinae | Wolf Spider | earthworm | Earthworms |
| amelicl | San Jose Scale | Snake | Coras Medicinalis Spider |
| Daddy Long Legs | Opiliones | Canada Goose | Bean Leaf Beetle |
| Cloudy wing | Prioninae | Lady Beetle | Boxelder Bug |
| Lady Beetles | Drosophila | Chigger | Grass Spider |
| Tiger Beetle | Raccoon | Grass Spider | Lady Beetle |
| Red Mite | Black Bird | Rove Beetle | Wild Turkey |
| Cockroach | Little Gull | Leaf Beetle | Raccoon |
| Sowbug | Robin | Nymph | Badger |
| Staphylinid Larva | Sparrow | Bluegrass Billbug | Opossum |
| Oxyopes | Barn Swallow | Sowbug | Coyote |
| German Cockroack | Tawny shouldered Blackbird | Daddy Longlegs | Whitetail Deer |
| Hypochilul bonnete Gertsch | Mosquito | Carpenter Ant | |
| Raccoon | Moth | Centipedes | |
| canadian geese | Fire Ants | ||
| squirrel | |||
| beaver | |||
| badger | |||
| butterfly (blue purple) | |||
| sparrow | |||
| woodpecker | |||
| deer | |||
| PM Core | PM Core | PM Core | PM Core |
| plants | plants | plants | plants |
| grass | wavyleaf thistle | red root pigweed | |
| PM Core | nettles | horseweed | common ragweed |
| milkweed | dandilion | common mallow | |
| curly dock | milkweed | dandilion | |
| dandilion | common mullein | stinging nettle | |
| poison ivy | umbrella plant | ||
| musk thistle | clammy ground cherry | ||
| common ragweed | cocklebur | ||
| 6 more different kinds of plant | |||
| ANIMALS | ANIMALS | ANIMALS | ANIMALS |
| boxer beetle | red bugs | worms | ant |
| mosquito | Darner Dragonfly | spider | gnat |
| minnows | slug | centipede | brown spider |
| deer | wasps | bullsnake | ground squirrel |
| raccoon | caterpillar | black bird | frogs |
| spiders | hairy caterpiller | raccoon | raccoons |
| flys | ants | deer | |
| spiders | waterbugs | lady beetle | |
| beetles | bluegill | minnow | |
| rabbit | minnows | termite | |
| meadowlark | grasshopper | beaver | |
| deer | lady beetle | hawk | |
| minnows | pillbug | white butterfly | |
| black spiders | southern leopard frog | ||
| pale spiders | blanchards cricket frog |
