Blue-green algae is known to emit toxins which can cause skin irritation in humans, or stomach upsets if a lot of affected ...

The heads build up year after year in the sediment providing a natural archive of the chironomid species that have lived in the lake. By studying the optimum summer temperature of over 200 common ...

The fictional stream food web consists of two basal food resources (algae and detritus) and four species of stream insects: a chironomid midge, an omnivorous trichopteran (caddisfly), a predaceous ...

"But they're usually in very controlled conditions and using one strain and one species of chironomid larvae." Mr Teagle said putting the results into the context of a large water body as ...

The cooler water temperatures, shorter days and windy conditions that came with the cold front all combined to help break up ...

IgE antibodies reactive with silverfish, cockroach and chironomid are frequently found in mite-positive allergic patients. Int Arch Allergy Immunol. 1995 Oct;108(2):165-9. doi:10.1159/000237134 ...