Wyoming’s only threatened insect discovered in more high-country streams

Posted 6/27/22

Clinging to rocks and other substrate and munching on algae below Wyoming’s glaciers are tiny insects no longer than 5 millimeters. A handful of stonefly species populate these high-mountain, Wyoming streams, but this particular one, the western glacier stonefly, holds the unfortunate distinction of being the only federally listed threatened insect in Wyoming.

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