The next time you hop into a lake and feel a painful pinch on your toe, it could be a giant water bug. These bugs, also known as Lethocerus americanus, belong to the Belostomatidae family. They are ...

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 ...

When we think about creatures skimming across water, images of birds landing or frogs leaping come to mind. But some of ...

Researchers have found that tropical forest ecosystems are more reliant on aquatic insects than temperate forest ecosystems, making them more vulnerable to disruptions to the links between land and ...

(a) Number of observation records per 500-m elevational band. (b) Number of genera and the number of their observation records in the database. (c) Cumulative number of observation records of each ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Building robots that can effortlessly mimic the movements of insects on water has been a persistent challenge in robotics. The ability to move autonomously and efficiently in ...