Chironomidae (family) (Non-biting Midge)
ADULTS: similar in appearance to mosquitoes, but neither sex take a blood meal; they may feed on nectar, honeydew or insect droppings
LARVAE: up to 14mm long, common in wetlands and still water, and also in anoxic water or soil, and some species live in the marine intertidal zone. They are typically blood red ... hence the common name of 'blood worms'. They may also coil and uncoil, thrashing about.
Chironomidae (family) is listed in the following regions:
Canberra & Southern Tablelands | Southern Highlands | Albury, Wodonga | South Coast | Greater Sydney | Hunter Region | New South Wales North Coast | Barwon South West | Greater Brisbane | South East South Australia
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Species information
- Chironomidae (family) Scientific name
- Non-biting Midge Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 839.43m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
- External link More information
Location information
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Maps
ANBG ANBG South Annex Aranda Bushland Attunga Point Bill Kennedy Memorial Park Black Mountain Blue Gum Point to Attunga Bay Bluetts Block (402, 403, 12, 11) Boro Bruce Ponds Bruce Ridge Bruce Ridge to Gossan Hill Budjan Galindji (Franklin Grassland) Reserve Caladenia Forest, O'Connor Canberra City Farm Cantor Crescent Woodland, Higgins City Renewal Authority Area Commonwealth & Kings Parks Crace Grasslands Cuumbeun Nature Reserve Dawson Street Gardens Denman Prospect 2 Estate Deferred Area (Block 12) Dickson Wetland Dickson Wetland Corridor Dryandra St Woodland Emu Creek Flea Bog Flat to Emu Creek Corridor Fowles St. Woodland, Weston Gibraltar Pines Giralang Wetlands Glebe Park Goorooyarroo NR (ACT) Goulburn Mulwaree Council Griffith Woodland Higgins Woodland Holder Wetlands Hughes Grassy Woodland Illilanga & Baroona Isabella Pond Jerrabomberra Wetlands Kama Katarina's garden Lake Burley Griffin West Lake Ginninderra Lake Tuggeranong McQuoids Hill Molonglo River Reserve Mount Ainslie Mount Ainslie to Black Mountain Mount Majura Mount Painter Mount Taylor Mulligans Flat Piney Ridge Queanbeyan River Red Hill to Yarralumla Creek Stirling Park Sullivans Creek, Lyneham South Sullivans Creek, Turner Swamp Creek The Pinnacle Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve Tuggeranong Creek to Monash Grassland Umbagong District Park Watson Green Space Woodstock Nature Reserve Yerrabi Pond -
Places
Acton, ACT Aranda, ACT Belconnen, ACT Braddon, ACT Campbell, ACT Carwoola, NSW Casey, ACT Coree, ACT Curtin, ACT Dickson, ACT Downer, ACT Dunlop, ACT Evatt, ACT Florey, ACT Fyshwick, ACT Goulburn, NSW Gungahlin, ACT Hall, ACT Hawker, ACT Higgins, ACT Holder, ACT Latham, ACT Lyneham, ACT Macgregor, ACT McKellar, ACT Melba, ACT Mitchell, ACT O'Connor, ACT Parkes, ACT Pialligo, ACT Reid, ACT Russell, ACT Turner, ACT
