Aquatic insects in restored streams need more rocks to lay their eggs

Aquatic insects in restored streams need more rocks to lay their eggs

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 aquatic insects that lay their eggs on the rock bottoms or sides. More eggs that hatch into larval insects is great news for stream … Read more