A 112-million-year-old chironomid fly (Diptera: Nematocera) is preserved in amber from Ecuador's Genoveva quarry, representing South America's first discovery of ancient insects trapped in fossilized ...

When I lived in Belfast in the early 2000s and needed wildness, a visit westwards to the gently sloping, marshy shores of Lough Neagh was just the thing. The sky above the lake – a body of shallow ...

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 ...

Deep under the Jurassic rock beds of New South Wales, scientists discovered fossilized insects that push back the history of one of the world’s most hardy families of flies. These fragile traces, ...

SINCE the discovery of the attraction of the Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata, to kerosine oil by Devenish1 in 1907, petroleum oils have been the object of extensive researches as a control ...

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.

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A specimen of Polypedilum nubifer, a species similar to Polypedilum vanderplanki. Image: CBG Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics (CreativeCommons) Animals that can exist without water ...

This study investigates the potential of applying stable oxygen isotopes (δ18O) from head capsules (HCs) of subfossil chironomids (subfamily Tanypodinae) to reconstruct past temperature changes from ...