Winter stoneflies are a puzzle for many fly fishers. With few insects hatching in the colder months of the year, a stonefly ...

(from left) Scott Hotaling, Alisha Shah and Lusha Tronstad take time out from conducting fieldwork in the Tetons last summer. The three contributed to a paper, titled “Mountain Stoneflies May Tolerate ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Perhaps it’s the summers I spent in college ...

This past weekend we had some particularly warm weather. On Saturday, a day that was sunny but not as blisteringly hot as Sunday, I found tiny bugs wandering around on the snow. These weren’t as small ...

In the majority of insects, metamorphosis fosters completely different looking larval and adult stages. For example, adult butterflies are completely different from their larval counterparts, termed ...

Saturday morning, students from the Program in the Environment (PitE) Club joined over 75 other volunteers and the Huron River Watershed Council to search for stoneflies in the Huron River. Stoneflies ...

BILLINGS, Mont. — Wildlife advocates asked a judge Wednesday to force federal officials to decide if a rare aquatic insect that's found only in Montana's Glacier National Park should be protected ...

JACKSON, MI – Knee-deep in Sharp Creek, Jack Ripstra trolls the creek bed Saturday afternoon with his net and pole. Ripstra – and the more than 45 volunteers trolling the Grand River watershed in the ...

The days of mid-March show huge variations. During this time, we may shiver in the chill of single digits (even occasionally subzero) in the a.m., and in the lengthening sunlight of the p.m. we'll ...

Boris Kondratieff receives funding from National Park Service, Agricultural Experiment Station, and National Science Foundation.. Experienced anglers recognize that for a trout, the ultimate “steak ...

Aquatic insect newsflash: The summer hatch is on. Mayflies (Order Ephemeroptera) and stoneflies (Plecoptera) are emerging from local waterways, sometimes in formidable numbers. But, blink and you may ...

Researchers may have unlocked a mystery surrounding unique aquatic insects in the Flathead watershed. In a new study published in the scientific journal Ecology, researchers from the University of ...