Craig Macadam
Conservation Director at Buglife and national recorder for UK Mayflies and Stoneflies
Craig has been interested in aquatic invertebrates since his schooldays. His particular passion is for mayflies and stoneflies and he is co-chair of the IUCN Mayfly, Stonefly and Caddisfly Specialist Group.
Craig is a founder member of the Riverfly Partnership and continues to provide training on the identification of mayflies, stoneflies and other freshwater invertebrates. He is particularly interested in investigating their distribution and ecology, and developing and implementing conservation action for them and their habitats. Craig has written a number of identification guides for amateurs and experts, and enjoys writing popular articles on mayflies in the fishing press and elsewhere.
As Conservation Director, Craig heads up the Conservation team at Buglife – The Invertebrate Conservation Trust. He leads on Buglife’s freshwater work and is particularly interested in developing conservation action for less well known species and overlooked freshwater habitats. For the past decade Craig has been studying the Upland summer mayfly (Ameletus inopinatus) and the potential impacts of climate change on this montane species. Recently he has been working on the Northern February red (Brachyptera putata) – an endemic stonefly, now thought to be restricted to rivers in in the north of Scotland.
