non-biting midge - Procladius bellus

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non-biting midge - Procladius bellus -

Red Rock Reservoir, Knoxville, Marion County, Iowa, USA
May 15, 2010
Size: ~3 mm BL

Swarms of these tiny flies alighted on me today as I paddled a kayak across Red Rock Lake, a large (1 mile wide X 15 miles long) reservoir. [EDIT: In retrospect helped by John Carr's ID below of the insects as non-biting midges, what I first described as "bites not painful, just annoying" must have been merely the prickly sensations of my skin as the tiny insects alighted and moved about.]

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non-biting midge - Procladius bellus - female

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Contributed by John Pearson on 15 May, 2010 - 2:00pm
Last updated 16 February, 2013 - 2:42pm

Moved

Moved from Flies.

… John F. Carr, 18 May, 2010 - 10:27pm

Non-biting midge

Maybe Procladius bellus? I'd need a slightly better look to be sure. For example, there ought to be ~13 antenna segments for that species, and an M-Cu crossvein present.

… John F. Carr, 15 May, 2010 - 5:53pm

Thanks

Thanks for trying, John, but I cannot squeeze any finer views of the antennae or venation out of these overzoomed photos. Thanks also for correcting my mischaracterization of the sensation as ineffectual "bites" (now edited).

… John Pearson, 15 May, 2010 - 8:18pm

Chironomidae maybe

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… John Schneider, 15 May, 2010 - 3:21pm

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