Biology Of Aquatic Insect Mayflies (Order: Ephemeroptera) (An Appropriate Food Resource Of Birds And Aquatic Creatures)

Abstract

Hassan Vatandoost

Background: Aquatic arthropods play an important role in life science. Some of them are beneficial and some play an important role for transmission of different disease to human and other creatures. Mayflies is a specify aquatic insect which is an appropriate food resource of birds and aquatic creatures.

Main body of the abstract: In this research an intensive search of scientific literature was done in “PubMed”, “Web of Knowledge”, “Scopus”, “Google Scholar”, “SID”, etc. Results showed that this insect has sub imago stage which is unique among all he arthropods. Nymphal stage is around 2 years and sometimes they have 45 stages.

Short Conclusion: Artificial rearing of this insect is appropriate for food resource of other creatures.

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