The joint international meeting 2008 (XV1 Symposium on Plecoptera and XII Conference on Ephemeroptera)
The regular international meeting on the study of two groups of aquatic insects - stoneflies and mayflies - took place in June 2008 in Stuttgart (Germany). The work was done in the main areas: biogeography, distribution and faunistics, ecology, life cycles and reproduction, morphology, ultrastructure and physiology, behavior, phylogeny systematics, taxonomy two insect orders. One of the problems is the study of aquatic insects in the waters of different degrees of pollution, identification of their sensitivity to pollutants.