FURTHER OBSERVATIONS ON WINTER COCOONS IN CHIRONOMIDAE (DIPTERA)
- 1 June 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Canadian Entomologist
- Vol. 110 (6) , 667-669
- https://doi.org/10.4039/ent110667-6
Abstract
Winter cocoons have been described in several species of Chironomidae (summary in Danks 1971, table V; see also Madder et al. 1977). The larvae are tightly folded within these closed cocoons in ways more or less characteristic of the species. Usually the walls of the cocoons are thicker than those of the tubes within which larvae are active in summer and less particulate matter is incorporated into them. Most larvae of two species studied earlier in Ottawa (Danks 1971) constructed their winter cocoons only after surface ice had formed.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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