Evidence
Where all of this came from.
39 reference records rest on 224 published pages, and 109 of those come from state and provincial natural-resources departments. That suits a set of records about what lives in the water those departments survey. The rest is federal survey work, university and extension guides, and interagency reports. The counts are below. Every reviewed line sits behind a record or a search, with the sources standing behind its record.
How to read this
A line is cited as precisely as someone checked it.
Where a reviewer traced a line to the pages that carry it, the line names those pages and, when the evidence is narrower than the record, where it comes from — one coast, one lake, one region. 605 of 1049 of the lines below are traced that way. The rest show the sources standing behind their whole record, marked “record’s sources”, because nobody has yet checked which page carried which line, and printing a single citation there would be a mapping nobody made.
National
52
A federal or national government body — USGS, NOAA, EPA, the Fish and Wildlife Service, the Park Service, Fisheries and Oceans Canada.
State
109
A state, provincial or commonwealth natural-resources department. Most of this carrier rests here, which suits it: these are the bodies that survey the water the records describe.
Interagency
12
A commission or joint survey run across several agencies, such as the Great Lakes Fishery Commission's forage task groups.
University
45
A university research programme, cooperative extension service or Sea Grant office. Published work, but not the agency that manages the water.
Journal
6
A peer-reviewed paper, or a curated scientific register such as the World Register of Marine Species. Added with the 2026-09-25 evidence review, which went to the primary study where no agency page said what a claim needed.
Probe leftovers
What the weekly check could not treat as ordinary.
These addresses are still the citations. The check named what it saw. None of them is a gone page in the MISIN sense, so the records were not rewritten to hide a redirect, a timeout, or a bot wall.
Iowa DNR — BluegillMoved
The cited address answers through a permanent redirect. GET on the page that lands still names Bluegill.
A same-site move that still names the animal is not the MISIN case. The citation stays until a reviewer reads the new address into the record.
CASG — market squidUnreachable from this network
The California Sea Grant market-squid page times out from the probe network.
NOAA still covers the same animal on this record. The CASG address stays; a timeout is not a reason to drop a citation.
Mass.gov — menhaden and longfin squidRefused the probe
Both creature-feature pages answered 403 from the probe network.
A bot wall is not evidence the page is gone. The citations stay; the weekly check does not fail the build on unverifiable.
Michigan DNR — crayfish identification PDFRefused the probe
The cited PDF answered 403 from the probe network.
A refused PDF is not a 404. The citation stays on the crayfish record until a reviewer can open it.
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute — silversidesRefused the probe
The Menidia page answered 500 from the probe network.
A 500 is not a 404, and it is not a 403. The citation stays.
Claims
Every reviewed line in the app.
Damselfly / Dragonfly (Odonata) →28 lines
- What you can seeAquatic nymph with an extendable grasping labium (mask) used to seize prey — the strongest single Odonata field tellMAINE-DEP-ODONATA, EPA-MACRO-ID-TIPS
- What you can seeDamselfly nymphs: slender body and three leaf-like caudal lamellae at the rear (these are gills, not mayfly cerci)MAINE-DEP-ODONATA, EPA-MACRO-ID-TIPS, NOAA-GLERL-ODONATA, MDC-DAMSELFLY-LARVAE
- What you can seeDragonfly nymphs: usually stout, sometimes elongate or spider-like; gills inside the abdomen; at most three short pointed structures at the tip, no long tailsMAINE-DEP-ODONATA, EPA-MACRO-ID-TIPS, NOAA-GLERL-ODONATA
- What you can seeWing pads present on mature nymphsNOAA-GLERL-ODONATA, MDC-DRAGONFLY-LARVAE
- What you can seeAdults: large compound eyes, two pairs of similar-sized wings; damselflies usually hold the wings together above the body (spreadwings excepted), dragonflies hold them out flatNOAA-GLERL-ODONATA, MAINE-DEP-ODONATA, MDC-DAMSELFLIES
- What argues against itRound filamentous cerci without a labium mask favor mayfly or stonefly, not OdonataEPA-MACRO-ID-TIPS
- What argues against itA portable case or hard-head/soft-abdomen caddis plan is not Odonatarecord’s sources
- What argues against itA tiny proleg-only worm is a midge, not a damselfly nymphrecord’s sources
- What argues against itA fish-shaped school is forage, not an odonaterecord’s sources
- Declared limitOdonata is a broad order. This record supports a damselfly/dragonfly hypothesis, not a family or species call.record’s sources
- Declared limitCaudal lamellae on damselfly nymphs are commonly mistaken for mayfly tails; the labium mask is the honest separator.record’s sources
- Declared limitThis preview does not claim a current emergence, density, or fishing pattern.record’s sources
- Size bandnymph: 6-68 (usually 13-68) mmMAINE-DEP-ODONATA, MDC-DRAGONFLY-LARVAE, MDC-DAMSELFLY-LARVAEEvidence from: Maine and Missouri state guides
- Size bandadult: 25-89 (body length; damselflies 25-64) mmMDC-DRAGONFLIES, MDC-DAMSELFLIESEvidence from: Missouri field guide
- Water typeriverrecord’s sources
- Water typestreamrecord’s sources
- Water typelake-marginrecord’s sources
- Water typespringrecord’s sources
- Life stagenymphrecord’s sources
- Life stageadultrecord’s sources
- Where it sitsamong vegetation and stems (climbers)record’s sources
- Where it sitson or in substrate (sprawlers / burrowers)record’s sources
- Where it sitsadults hunting over stillwater and slow marginsrecord’s sources
- How it movesclimbing vegetationrecord’s sources
- How it movesjet propulsion (dragonfly nymph)MDC-DRAGONFLY-LARVAEEvidence from: Missouri field guide
- How it movesswimming by undulating the body (damselfly nymph)MDC-DAMSELFLY-LARVAEEvidence from: Missouri field guide
- How it movesstrong, sustained adult flight (dragonflies)NOAA-GLERL-ODONATA, MDC-DRAGONFLY-LARVAE
- Sources disagreeNOAA GLERL describes damselfly flight as weak and fluttery; the Missouri Department of Conservation describes it as fast. Both describe dragonfly flight as strong.record’s sources
- NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research LaboratoryNOAA-GLERL-ODONATA · National · read 2026-08-24
- Maine Department of Environmental ProtectionMAINE-DEP-ODONATA · State · read 2026-08-24
- U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyEPA-MACRO-ID-TIPS · National · read 2026-08-06
- Missouri Department of ConservationMDC-DRAGONFLIES · State · read 2026-09-25
- Missouri Department of ConservationMDC-DRAGONFLY-LARVAE · State · read 2026-09-25
- Missouri Department of ConservationMDC-DAMSELFLIES · State · read 2026-09-25
- Missouri Department of ConservationMDC-DAMSELFLY-LARVAE · State · read 2026-09-25
The pages themselves
All 224, and what each one is holding up.
- Maine Department of Environmental Protection
MAINE-DEP-ODONATA
- Missouri Department of Conservation
MDC-DAMSELFLIES
- Missouri Department of Conservation
MDC-DAMSELFLY-LARVAE
- Missouri Department of Conservation
MDC-DRAGONFLIES
- Missouri Department of Conservation
MDC-DRAGONFLY-LARVAE
- NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory
NOAA-GLERL-ODONATA
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
EPA-MACRO-ID-TIPS
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