ALMOST any collection of freshwater animals will contain a high proportion of insects in the larval or nymphal stage,and a number of these cannot, at present, be named with certainty. The work of many ...

Likening it to providing more runways at busy airports, researchers at North Carolina State University found in a new study that adding protruding rocks to restored streams can help attract female ...

Insect repellents containing picaridin can be lethal to salamanders. So reports a new study that investigated how exposure to two common insect repellents influenced the survival of aquatic salamander ...

On a cold April evening, a dozen biologists and conservationists headed into a wooded area of the Middlesex Fells Reservation, over 2,500 acres of forest, wetlands, and hills in portions of Malden, ...

15. Fresh-water fishes -- Definitions and counts of fish structures -- Key 15A : Fresh-water fishes -- Plate 15A : Fish structures -- Key 15B : Trout (Salmo) and Charrs (Salvelinus) -- Plate 15B : ...

Scientists across seven different sites throughout Central and South America replicated the extreme rainfall events predicted by climate change science. Using the insect larvae that live in the water ...

Caddisfly adults only live for about a month. Females lay their eggs in water, where the larvae hatch and swim. Entomology has a permanent souvenir of the Covid-19 pandemic in the form of a ...

Pharmaceuticals that people globally rely on for daily health — including antibiotics, antidepressants and painkillers — are entering ecosystems via wastewater, posing poorly understood risks. Once ...