Abstract
Drift samples were taken upstream and at the outlet of a final-cut strip mine pit through which a portion of the Tongue River, Wyoming, USA, was rerouted. All prominent rheophilic insect species (except cased Trichoptera) were found capable of drifting the length of the pit (> 500 m). However, drift densities leaving the pit were reduced in comparison to those entering it. Pit inhabitants such as burrowing mayflies, Chaoborus flavicans, and several species of Chironomidae were also collected at the pit outlet. Under the physical conditions created by rerouting the river through a strip mine pit, the observed maximum behavioral and background drift distances (> 500 m) were significantly greater than those reported in the past (< 100 m).
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