Because copepods are harmless, you could also use them to keep mosquitoes out of your rain barrel, but you'll probably scoop ...

How patterns of new host use develop in copepods is largely unknown. We are studying the life cycle of sea lice, a prevalent and devastating threat to commercial aquaculture worldwide. Whenever new ...

Large copepods are eaten by larval fish, which scientists also classify as plankton since they are too weak and small to swim against the ocean currents. These larvae grow into fish that are eaten ...

David at the National Institute of Oceanography, to fish only in the top 4 in ... been seen in a wide diversity of groups, among them copepods, mysids, decapods, stomatopod larvæ, siphonophores ...

Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 56, No. 1 (2011), pp. 403-414 (12 pages) The genus Oithona has been considered the most abundant and ubiquitous copepod in the world’s oceans. However, despite its ...

Delta smelt are tiny fish — most adults are less than 3 inches long — and ... As they grow, their diet shifts almost exclusively to small crustaceans called copepods. They usually live for just one ...