Midge vs Mayfly - What's the difference?
midge | mayfly |
Any of various small two-winged flies, for example, from the family Chironomidae or non-biting midges, the family Chaoboridae or phantom midges, and the family Ceratopogonidae or biting midges, all belonging to the order Diptera.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
, author=Douglas Larson
, title=Runaway Devils Lake
, volume=100, issue=1, page=46
, magazine=
Any of the many fragile insects of the order Ephemeroptera, that develop in fresh water and live very briefly as winged adults.
* 2002 , John Gooderham, Edward Tsyrlin, The Waterbug Book ,
* 2005 , Terry Hellekson, Fish Flies: The Encyclopedia of the Fly Tier's Art ,
* 2010 , Barbara L. Peckarsky, J. David Allan, Angus R. McIntosh, Brad W. Taylor, Chapter 9: Understanding the Role of Predation in Open Systems'', Ian Billick, Mary V. Price (editors), ''The Ecology of Place ,
As nouns the difference between midge and mayfly
is that midge is any of various small two-winged flies, for example, from the family Chironomidae or non-biting midges, the family Chaoboridae or phantom midges, and the family Ceratopogonidae or biting midges, all belonging to the order Diptera while mayfly is any of the many fragile insects of the order Ephemeroptera, that develop in fresh water and live very briefly as winged adults.midge
English
(wikipedia midge)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Devils Lake is where I began my career as a limnologist in 1964, studying the lake’s neotenic salamanders and chironomids, or midge flies. […] The Devils Lake Basin is an endorheic, or closed, basin covering about 9,800 square kilometers in northeastern North Dakota.}}
Derived terms
* apple midge * biting midge * dung midge * gall midge * mackerel-midge * meniscus midge * midge cap * midge grass * midget * midgie * mountain midge * net-winged midge * non-biting midge * pear midge * phantom midge * solitary midge * wheat-midgemayfly
English
(wikipedia mayfly)Noun
(mayflies)page 132,
- Adult mayflies' have large compound eyes and most have two pairs of wings.' Mayfly nymphs are distinguished by their three tails (two cerci and a terminal filament) and the set of gills on each side of their abdomen.
page 213,
- Mayflies are fragile, gossamer-winged insects that arise from bodies of water and often swarm in great numbers.
page 195,
- Stoneflies have negligible consumptive (thin solid line) and behavioral effects (thin dashed line) on mayfly' abundance. Consumption by trout decreases the abundance of '''mayflies''' (solid line), but trout suppress ' mayfly emigration (drift) and thereby increase their abundance (thick dashed line).