Key Documents
This page contains useful documents and links for volunteers, coordinators, ecology contacts and tutors.
Not clear on the difference between Standard, Urban and Extended Riverfly? Click here for the summary document.
Role Descriptions
Documents summarising what is involved in each of the roles within the Riverfly Partnership:
Kits and Guides
Riverfly Partnership approved kits are available to buy from NHBS.
Please click here.
Riverfly training packs
Packs come in two formats: e-version includes files to print and collate, £10 each + p&p. Or full packs, costing £20 each + p&p where we will print and collate everything for you. If you are hosting a Riverfly training day please e-mail us at info@riverflies.org to order packs at least three weeks in advance.
Underlay mat
You can purchase an underlay mat to put beneath your sorting tray, or download, print and laminate one yourself (available for RMI or Urban).
For the Extended Riverfly Guide, click here.
Forms — for use by monitors and coordinators
RMI recording form for printing off and using in field.
Excel form for keeping RMI records locally.
Site registration form for printing/downloading and submitting to ecology contact & Riverfly HQ. Notes and guidance on the measurements required for this form can be found here.
Urban field recording form — for monitors taking part in the Urban Riverfly scheme.
Extended field recording form — see the Extended page for a 6-month version.
Information for Riverfly Monitors
The following resources are for trained Riverfly monitors and coordinators participating in the RMI, Urban Riverfly Scheme, or Extended Riverfly Scheme.
Riverfly Identification and Non-Native Species Guidance:
Images of the RMI Eight, riverfly target groups, plus those of many, many more freshwater macroinvertebrates are freely available (for personal use) via the Salisbury & District Angling Club database.
More videos on John Davy Bowker's YouTube channel, ‘Freshwater Invertebrates’. Look out in particular for:
Crayfish guidance for Riverfly monitors in England and Wales (See SEPA for guidance in Scotland and Invasive Species Northern Ireland for guidance in NI)
Other Environmental Guidance:
Foam in rivers and still waters - Environment Agency information sheet
‘Sewage fungus’ A field and microscopic guide by Tim Geatches, Julie Gething and Graham Rutt, 2014
Health Guidance:
Tick Awareness leaflet from the UK Health Security Agency
RMI Theory Training
All volunteers have to attend a training day before becoming a Riverfly monitor. Some tutors choose to teach the theory element of the training in person during the training day, whereas others request that the volunteers read the Riverfly Monitoring Initiative Theory Guide and pass the online test before attending the training session. Your coordinator/tutor will let you know if this is necessary. When you have learnt the theory and undertaken a practical training day run by an accredited Riverfly tutor, you will receive an RMI certificate.
Trigger Level Setting Guide
This guidance is aimed at anybody involved in setting trigger levels or interpreting RMI results, including statutory agency ecology contacts, monitors, group/hub coordinators.