Feeding Behavior of Aquatic Insects: Case Studies on Black Fly and Mosquito Larvae

1996 ◽  
Vol 115 (3) ◽  
pp. 206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard W. Merritt ◽  
Douglas A. Craig ◽  
Roger S. Wotton ◽  
Edward D. Walker
Keyword(s):  
Feeding Behavior ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Aquatic Insects ◽  
Mosquito Larvae ◽  
Black Fly

scholarly journals Relationships between predatory aquatic insects and mosquito larvae in residential areas in northern Thailand

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nattawut Sareein ◽  
Chitchol Phalaraksh ◽  
Panida Rahong ◽  
Chotiwut Techakijvej ◽  
Sangwoo Seok ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Aquatic Insects ◽  
Mosquito Larvae ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
Northern Thailand

THE INFLUENCE OF FORMULATION ON TOXICITY AND AVAILABILITY OF A PESTICIDE (METHOXYCHLOR) TO BLACK FLY LARVAE (DIPTERA: SIMULIIDAE), SOME NON-TARGET AQUATIC INSECTS AND FISH

1981 ◽  
Vol 113 (4) ◽  
pp. 281-293 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. J. Sebastien ◽  
W. L. Lockhart
Keyword(s):  
Aquatic Insects ◽  
Aquatic Organisms ◽  
Filter Feeding ◽  
Chironomid Larvae ◽  
Black Fly ◽  
Fly Larvae

AbstractTwo formulations of methoxychlor were compared with regard to toxicity and availability to aquatic organisms. A particulate formulation was less toxic than an emulsifiable formulation to chironomid larvae, stonefly nymphs, and fish. Similarly the particulate methoxychlor was less rapidly accumulated from water by those same animals than was the emulsified methoxychlor. With black fly larvae, the only filter-feeding animal used, the two formulations were about equal in toxicity, but the particulate formulation was accumulated more readily than emulsified material. Both formulations induced larvae to detach from substrate but emulsifiable methoxychlor acted more quickly. At the time of detachment, larvae exposed to the particulate formulation contained an average of 68 times more methoxychlor than larvae exposed to the emulsion.

Assessment of the toxicological interaction of sertraline with cholinesterase inhibiting insecticides in aquatic insects using the black fly,Simulium vittatumIS-7

2009 ◽  
pp. NA-NA
Author(s):  
Jay P. Overmyer ◽  
Paul F. Smith ◽  
Kristen A. Kellock ◽  
Jeong-Wook Kwon ◽  
Kevin L. Armbrust
Keyword(s):  
Aquatic Insects ◽  
Black Fly

Effects of lambda-cyhalothrin on mosquito larvae and predatory aquatic insects

2007 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 234-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon P Lawler ◽  
Deborah A Dritz ◽  
Julie A Christiansen ◽  
Anthony J Cornel
Keyword(s):  
Aquatic Insects ◽  
Mosquito Larvae ◽  
Lambda Cyhalothrin

scholarly journals Evaluation of the efficiency of some predators of aquatic insects as substitutes to disinsect the incomplete of mosquitoes (Culex pipiens molestus ForskalDiptera: Culicidae): تقييم كفاءة بعض المفترسات من الحشرات المائية كبدائل في مكافحة الأطوار غير الكاملة للبعوض (Culex pipiens molestus ForskalDiptera: Culicidae)

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Atallah Fahd Mukhlaf , Zwan Thamer Khudair
Keyword(s):  
Biological Control ◽  
Vector Control ◽  
Aquatic Insects ◽  
Culex Pipiens ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Mosquito Larvae ◽  
Control Programs ◽  
The Third ◽  
Culex Pipiens Molestus

All vector control programs emphasize the use of biological control. Anisops sardea (Notonectidae: Hemiptera) and Orthetrum chrysostigma (Libellulidae: Odonata) were common in freshwater communities in Mosul. They were predators of wing-wing larvae. The effectiveness of predisposition, efficacy of research, Study on predators O. chrysostigma, A. sardea using the incomplete stages of mosquitoes Culex pipiens molestus and Chironomus ninevah in the laboratory. Backbones consumed 9.0, 8.0, 6.7 and 6.7 of the four larval ages respectively and 5.3 virgins within 24 hours while the mantis nestled at the same time 8.7 6.7, 6.3 and 5.3 larvae of the four ages respectively and 3.3 virgins. Both predators preferred the third and fourth stages when faced with all the incomplete stages of the prey. The co-existence and synergy between predators O.chrysostigma and A.sardea increased the effectiveness of predation by 17% together. The number of prey consumed per day increased with increasing density in the predators' Search coefficient for both predators. The Orthetrum chrysostigma preferred the Hamoush larvae to the mosquito larvae while the  Anisops sardea preferred mosquito larvae to the Hamoush  larvae significantly.  

A Note on a Beetle which preys on Mosquito Larvae

1923 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 403-403
Author(s):  
J. W. S. Macfie
Keyword(s):  
Aquatic Insects ◽  
Gold Coast ◽  
Mosquito Larvae ◽  
African Species ◽  
Tiger Beetle

Last July (1922) a species of beetle, kindly identified by Dr. G. A. K. Marshall as the Tiger beetle, Cicindela octoguttata, F., a common Tropical African species, was observed to prey on mosquito larvae at Accra, in the Gold Coast. As this habit of the beetle does not appear to have been previously observed, and as it is perhaps remarkable that it should prey on such entirely aquatic insects as mosquito larvae, the following brief note may prove of interest.

scholarly journals Trichomycetes from lentic and lotic aquatic habitats in Ontario, Canada

Botany ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 86 (12) ◽  
pp. 1449-1466 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. B. Strongman ◽  
Merlin M. White
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Aquatic Insects ◽  
Ecological Group ◽  
Aquatic Habitats ◽  
Arthropod Communities ◽  
Black Fly ◽  
Lotic Habitats ◽  
Lotic Environments ◽  
First Time ◽  
Lentic Systems

Fungi and protists make up an ecological group, trichomycetes, that inhabit the guts of invertebrates, mostly aquatic insects. Trichomycetes are reported herein from arthropods collected in lotic habitats (fast flowing streams) and lentic environments (ponds, ditches, seeps, and lakes) from 11 sites in Algonquin Park and 6 other sites in Ontario, Canada. Thirty-two trichomycete species were recovered, including 7 new species: Legeriomyces algonquinensis , Legeriosimilis leptocerci , Legeriosimilis whitneyi , and Paramoebidium umbonatum are described from mayfly nymphs (Ephemeroptera); Pennella digitata and Glotzia incilis from black fly and midge larvae (Diptera), respectively; and Arundinula opeongoensis from a crayfish (Crustacea). Legeriomyces rarus Lichtw. & M.C. Williams and Stachylina penetralis Lichtw. are new North American records, and seven species are documented for the first time in Canada. More common and widely distributed trichomycete species such as Harpella melusinae Léger & Duboscq and Smittium culicis Manier, were also recovered. Most previous studies on trichomycetes have been done primarily in lotic environments but clearly lentic systems (e.g., ponds and lakes) harbour diverse arthropod communities and further exploration of these habitats will continue to increase our knowledge of trichomycete diversity.

Feeding behavior of black fly larvae and retention of fine particulate organic matter in a high-gradient blackwater stream

1998 ◽  
Vol 76 (2) ◽  
pp. 228-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
M C Miller ◽  
M Kurzhals ◽  
A E Hershey ◽  
R W Merritt
Keyword(s):  
Organic Matter ◽  
Feeding Behavior ◽  
Particulate Organic Matter ◽  
Fine Particles ◽  
Black Fly ◽  
High Gradient ◽  
Fine Particulate Organic Matter ◽  
Fine Particulate ◽  
Blackwater Stream ◽  
Fly Larvae

We studied the feeding behavior of black fly larvae and aspects of fine particulate organic matter (FPOM) retention in four riffles in a high-gradient blackwater stream in northeastern Minnesota, U.S.A., using fluorescent particulate dyes as tracers of FPOM. Radiant Red and Radiant Deep Green dye particles were added sequentially to the stream above the upper riffle during two sequential 10-min pulses separated by a 5-min interval with no dye addition. Gut analyses showed that green particles were ingested progressively more at downstream riffles well after the dye pulse had passed, but red particles showed the opposite pattern. Samples of Cladophora sp. collected at the same intervals showed that green dye particles were preferentially retained over red ones by filamentous algae, and thus would have been more available than red particles to larvae functioning as collector-gatherers. Our work strongly suggests that collector-gatherer behavior, in addition to collector-filterer behavior, is important for obtaining very fine particles by larval black flies. Our work also shows that although fluorescent dye particles are useful tracers of very fine particulate organic matter for feeding studies, the two similar-sized but different-colored particles used in this study behaved differently in terms of retention on Cladophora sp. By analogy, other similar-sized FPOM, which would be more heterogeneous chemically and physically than the dye particles, might also be expected to exhibit diverse behavior, affecting its availability to consumers.

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