JUNEAU -- One thing is certain about the majority of Alaska's aquatic insects: they won't be winning any beauty contests. These crawlers, swimmers and graspers boast characteristics such as sucking ...

Fossil insect find, Zekuforma maculata, reveals a land-to-water experiment in evolution, rewriting 230 million years of true ...

The flux of emerging aquatic insects from streams can provide a significant energy subsidy to riparian web-building spiders. However, despite the high temporality of aquatic insect emergence, the ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X BLAKELY – Clinging to rocks in the shallow current, tiny insects had a message for 20 curious ...

A North Carolina State University study published online this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that examining an insect's "family tree" might help predict a "cousin" ...

Children use a kick net to catch aquatic bugs in Spring Creek during last year’s Aquatic Bug Day. This year’s event is scheduled from 10 a.m.-noon Saturday, June 21, at LaPrele Park in Laramie. (Mason ...

No, this isn’t a prop from a King Kong movie — it’s a newly discovered member of the Megaloptera family that could very well be the largest aquatic insect in the world. Images of the grotesquely huge ...

AbstractAdult aquatic insects are important energy subsidies for terrestrial predators, but the effects of terrestrial predators on emerged aquatic insects have been widely neglected. We compared ...

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 ...

In May of 1993, rice farmers living near Lake Shinji, in southwestern Japan, began widely using an insecticide called imidacloprid. Within the same year, populations of arthropods that form the base ...