Chironomids, a group of aquatic insects closely related to mosquitoes, act as natural reservoirs of disease-causing cholera bacteria and can forewarn against possible outbreaks of the diarrheal ...

Chironomid identification All the egg masses and larvae that were sampled and analyzed in this study were identified as Chironomus transvaalensis. 454-pyrosequencing of 16S rRNA genes The ...

The Chironomids, though tiny, pack a big punch on the refuge because they are the most dominant and plentiful insect – both in numbers and as part of the biomass, Larsen said.