Natural Enemies of Blackflies and Midges

Literature Review

Fungi

General

• Humber, R. A. 1992. Collection of entomopathogenic fungal cultures: catolog of strains, 1992. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Research Service. ARS-110. 177pp. (Plant Protection Research Unit, U.S. Plant, Soil, and Water Laboratory, Tower Rd., Ithaca, N. Y. 14853-0331.)
  
  
  

Fungi of Black Flies and Chironomids

• Federici, B.A., L.A. Lacey, and M.S. Mulla. 1977. Coelomomycidim simulii: a fungal pathogen in larvae of Simulium vittatum. Proc. Pap. ann. Conf. Calif. Mosq. Contr. Assoc. 45: 110-113.
  
  
• Kramer, J.P. 1983. A mycosis of the black fly Simulium decorum (Simuliidae) caused by Erynia curvispora (Entomophthoraceae). Mycopathologia 82: 39-43.
  
  
• Weiser, J. 1976. The intermediary host for the fungus Coelomomyces chironomi. J. Invert. Path. 28: 273-274.
  
  
• Weiser, J. and McCauley, V.J.E. 1971. Two Coelomomyces infections of Chironomidae (Diptera) larvae in Marion Lake, British Columbia. Canad, J. Zool. 49: 65-68.