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Cricotopus sp.
Cricotopus sp. 		Photographer: Shelley Pneh

ID: 0000 0000 0715 1764 (2015-07-21)

Copyright © 2015 Shelley Pneh
 
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  • date of photo  Jun 10, 2015
  • location   Angelo Coast Range Reserve; S. Fork Eel River (Mendocino County, California, US)
  • family Chironomidae
  • order Diptera
  • class Insecta
  • habitat  midge larvae makes lives in Nostoc, a blue-green algae.
  • notes   The midge larvae is inside the Nostoc 'ear'. These two symbiotic organisms can be found together on large cobbles in flowing water.
  • photo category: Animal - Invertebrate-Insect

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