It’s been a unique fall in Delaware – cool, warm, rainy and then, downright warm again: perfect conditions for one last Chironomid swarm of the season at the Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge.

Insects of the family Chironomidae, also known as chironomids, are distributed worldwide in a variety of water habitats. These insects display a wide range of tolerance toward metals and organic ...

Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, Vol. 42, No. 2 (Apr., 1969), pp. 154-176 (23 pages) During 1965-66, descriptions and an identification key were developed for the mature larvae of the ...

Stable C isotope ratio (δ¹³C) values of chironomid remains (head capsules; HC) were used to infer changes in benthic C sources over the last 150 years for two French sub-Alpine lakes. The HCs were ...

The larva of the sleeping chironomid, Polypedilum vanderplanki -- a mosquito-like insect that inhabits semi-arid areas of Africa -- is well known for being able to come back to life after being nearly ...

Residents of Blue Ridge Township in Pune's Hinjawadi were alarmed to discover numerous Chironomid larvae in their drinking water, with many stuck on the sediment filter of a resident’s purifier.