Food chains of aedes vexans (Diptera: Culicidae) larvae in floodplain forests of the Dnipro river

Abstract

Ae. vexans larvae are attributed to pseudobenthos. During feeding they are able both to filtrate and to scratch a periphyton from the substratum. As to larvae of Ae. vexans in flood oakwoods of the Dnipro River the detritus makes up two third, but algae – one third of the ration.