Monitoring of Water Quality Using Aquatic Insects as Biological Indicators in Bhosga Reservoir, Karnataka, India

Aquatic insects are the utmost generally employed macroinvertebrates in freshwater monitoring and assessment worldwide. However, aquatic have received far less attention for objectives of health water quality bioassessment, particularly Kalaburagi, Karnataka. This study examined abundance Bhosga reservoir their relationship to physicochemical factors. Water ecosystem had been assessed using BMWP, ASPT, FBI scoring systems from October 2020 September 2021. Samples were collected monthly by sweep net dip methods. There 5964 recorded divided into 23 families 6 orders. Hemiptera (53%) was most dominated insect family, followed Coleoptera (16%), Diptera (15%), Odonata (8%), Ephemeroptera (6%), Trichoptera (2%). falls under class 2 category attributing