Corrections

This is wrong.

Thirty-nine reviewed groups and seventy-four cues, drawn and written by people who are not standing in your river. Some of it will be wrong, and the drawings are the most likely place — they are authored illustrations, not photographs of your water.

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What kind of error is it?

A statement is factually wrongA size range, a life stage, a water type, a behaviour that does not match the animal.
Something important is missingA structure, a stage, a group, or a caveat that should be here and is not.
A drawing does not match the animalThe plates are authored, not photographed, so this is the most likely kind of error.
The wording is confusing or overclaimsAnything that reads as a promise about what is hatching right now.
Something is brokenA link, a layout, a control that does nothing.
Something is unusable for meContrast, focus order, a target too small, a label a screen reader does not read.

Which entry

The statement you are disputing

Overview

The back is the second check and it is easier in poor light: flat, and ruled across by several narrow dark parallel lines. A backswimmer's back is keeled like the bottom of a boat and carries no crosslines. Then the front feet — a boatman's are shaped like scoops and fringed with hair, because it is scraping algae and detritus rather than grabbing anything. And Missouri says the useful thing outright: this is one of the few aquatic true bugs that is not a predator and does not bite people. WVDEP, for its part, classes the family as predators.

Cited for this statement: MDC-WATER-BOATMEN, WVDEP-INVERT-GUIDE. The report names this statement exactly, so nobody has to find it again.

What is wrong with itWhat it should sayOn what authorityA correction with no source is still worth sending. It will be checked before anything changes either way.

The whole report, exactly as it would travel

HATCH MATCH — CORRECTION REPORT

Application: HTH-HM-001
Build: 0.19.1 · f244e24
Carrier schema: 11
Reference reviewed: 2026-09-25
Reported: 2026-11-06

Kind: not stated
Subject: Water boatmen
Record id: hm-water-boatman-reference-v1
Claim: guide.overview.1
Page: /guide/water-boatmen

WHAT THE REFERENCE SAYS NOW
The back is the second check and it is easier in poor light: flat, and ruled across by several narrow dark parallel lines. A backswimmer's back is keeled like the bottom of a boat and carries no crosslines. Then the front feet — a boatman's are shaped like scoops and fringed with hair, because it is scraping algae and detritus rather than grabbing anything. And Missouri says the useful thing outright: this is one of the few aquatic true bugs that is not a predator and does not bite people. WVDEP, for its part, classes the family as predators.
Cited sources: MDC-WATER-BOATMEN, WVDEP-INVERT-GUIDE

WHAT IS WRONG
(not stated)

WHAT IT SHOULD SAY
(not stated)

SOURCE
(none given)

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What happens to it

Checked, or not used.

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