Food and feeding of aquatic larvae of the midge chaoborus flavicans (meigen) (diptera : chaoboridae) in the laboratory

✍ Scribed by W. J. P. Smyly

• Book ID: 104614008
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1980
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 546 KB
• Volume: 70
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1573-5141
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00015504

✦ Synopsis

Laboratory observations on the feeding of fourth instar larvae of Chaoborus flavicans (Meigen) show that features relating to the prey, such as swimming behaviour, size and shape, play a major role in determining the kind of food eaten by the predator .

In tests with two interacting limnetic cyclopoid copepods, Cyclops abyssorum out-competed Mesocyclops leuckarti when Chaoborus was absent but did not do so when Chaoborus was present .