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Midge - Chironomus
Copyright © 2009 John Pearson

Midge - Chironomus
Ackworth, Warren County, Iowa, USA
April 19, 2009
Size: 9mm body, 2mm antennae
Clinging to screen door on windy day. Might be the same species as photographed earlier at same location.

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Contributed by John Pearson on 19 April, 2009 - 3:04pm
Last updated 9 September, 2009 - 9:24pm

Moved
Moved from Chironominae.
… John F. Carr, 9 September, 2009 - 7:07pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Midges.
… John F. Carr, 25 June, 2009 - 10:28pm login or register to post comments

Scale
How accurately do you know the spacing of the wires in the screen?
… John F. Carr, 20 April, 2009 - 8:15pm login or register to post comments

 
Just measured it
My ruler is in 1 mm increments, so I had to interpolate the decimal, but it looks like 1.6 mm from center of rung to center of rung.
… John Pearson, 20 April, 2009 - 9:00pm login or register to post comments

 
Interpolation
You can measure 10 rungs and divide by 10. Or is that what you meant by interpolate?
… John F. Carr, 20 April, 2009 - 9:07pm login or register to post comments

 
Good point
My first attempt was to measure the distance across a single cell from rung to rung. Good idea to measure ten cells at once! That gives a measurement of 15 mm per 10 cells, so 1.5 mm per cell.
… John Pearson, 20 April, 2009 - 9:25pm login or register to post comments

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