Field Study on Acoustic Response of Chironomid Midges (Diptera: Chironomidae) Around a Hyper-Eutrophic Lake in Japan

Annals of the Entomological Society of America

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 123-128

  Hirabayashi, Kimio ^a   Nakamoto, Nobutada ^a  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acoustic response; Chironomidae; Midge; Swarm; Wingbeat sound

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001093423     PISSN: 00138746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0013-8746(2001)094[0123:FSOARO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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