Giant water bugs are ruthless predators capable of killing frogs and salamanders, yet males of this species devote weeks of exhausting effort to a surprisingly tender task. The reason they do it ...

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 ...

From water to air: we only know many flying insects as adults, but many of them have their first life stages in the water. The larvae of mayflies, for example, spend almost a year in the shallow shore ...

Hello.Earlier this month, I went to a nearby mountain to collect aquatic insects.In the prefecture where I live, both giant ...

A computational survey of archived whole-genome sequencing data reveals that true water bugs retain the ancestral arthropod ...

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Microplastics are tiny plastic particles that can cause big problems when they enter the water supply. One way my fluid dynamics lab explores microplastic movement is by studying how tiny ...