Download or read book The Predaceous Midges of the World written by Willis Wagner Wirth and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The family Ceratopogonidae includes about 5,000 described species of midges with quite diverse habits, including blood-sucking forms that transmit important diseases of man and animals, species that suck hemolymph from caterpillars and other insects and may be of importance in biological control, and a large number of predators as adults and larvae that are important links in the food chains of aquatic organisms.