Abstract
Interest in the food and feeding behaviour of larval chironomids has expanded in recent years. This is primarily because of:
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improvement of taxonomic keys to allow their identification;
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attempts to control pestiferous emergences from lentic habitats (Hilsenhoff, 1966; Ali, 1990);
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recognition of the energetic importance of chironomids in freshwater ecosystems (Benke et al., 1984; Soluk, 1985; Berg and Hellenthal, 1991,1993).
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Berg, M.B. (1995). Larval food and feeding behaviour. In: Armitage, P.D., Cranston, P.S., Pinder, L.C.V. (eds) The Chironomidae. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0715-0_7
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