Feeding strategies of larval black flies.

DC Currie, DA Craig - 1987 - cabidigitallibrary.org
… relationships, 4 feeding strategies used by larval Simuliidae are … These feeding groups are
considered one by one and a range of … The relevance of eclectic feeding strategies of larval

Feeding behavior of aquatic insects: case studies on black fly and mosquito larvae

RW Merritt, DA Craig, RS Wotton, ED Walker - Invertebrate Biology, 1996 - JSTOR
… on black fly larvae and mosquito larvae to illustrate this integrated approach to the study of
feeding in suspension-feeding aquatic insects. … Feeding strategies of larval black flies. In: …

[PDF][PDF] Black flies

KC Kim, RW Merritt - Ecology, Population Management and …, 1986 - researchgate.net
… any feeding strategy … of feeding strategies employed by larval simuliids, not only at the family
and generic levels but also at that of the species and individual. Larval feeding strategies of …

Feeding postures of suspension-feeding larval black flies: the conflicting demands of drag and food acquisition

DD Hart, RA Merz, SJ Genovese, BD Clark - Oecologia, 1991 - Springer
… We hypothesize that the feeding posture adopted by a black fly larva is not wholly a passive
Larval postures may nonetheless represent a strategy that maximizes the difference …

Black flies in the boreal biome, key organisms in both terrestrial and aquatic environments: a review

B Malmqvist, PH Adler, K Kuusela, RW Merritt… - Ecoscience, 2004 - Taylor & Francis
Larval black flies depend on flowing water to bring their food and are … fed on a diet consisting
primarily of black fly larvae fledge sooner than those quicker to adopt the foraging habits of …

Feeding in blackfly larvae (Diptera: Simuliidae)–the capture of colloids

RS Woton - Acta Zoologica Lituanica, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
… Clearly there is much we do not understand about feeding in larval blackflies and the
consequent egestion of the large, dense aggregates that are faecal pellets. That’s worth bearing in …

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

MC Miller, M Kurzhals, AE Hershey… - Canadian journal of …, 1998 - cdnsciencepub.com
… In this paper, we report a study of the feeding behavior of black fly larvae … By examining gut
contents of larvae collected during and after pulses … Feeding strategies of larval black flies. In …

Feeding behavior of larval black flies (Diptera: Simuliidae) with and without exposure to Bacillus thuringiensis var. israelensis

CA Stoops, PH Adler - Journal of Vector Ecology, 2006 - BioOne
… Our study is the first to provide a behavioral time budget for larval black flies and to … programs
for black flies and should be monitored, against the backdrop of typical feeding behavior, …

Observations on the mating, feeding, ovarian development, and oviposition of adult black flies (Simuliidae, Diptera)

DM Davies, BV Peterson - Canadian Journal of Zoology, 1956 - cdnsciencepub.com
… In the present paper observatioils oil mating, adult feeding in relatio~l to larval il~ltrie~lt stores…
vittatum appears to vary in its feeding habits in different parts of the continent. Most workers …

Black flies (Simuliidae)

PH Adler, JW McCreadie - Medical and veterinary entomology, 2019 - Elsevier
… the filter-feeding larvae often play a key ecological role. The blood-feeding habits of the female
flies can … with spaced patterns vigorously defend their space from other larval black flies. …