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SUMMARY. Chironomid eggs are the primary food of aduh and nymphal Hydrodroma despiciens. Observations on feeding behaviour showed that the palps are well adapted for probing the egg mass jelly. Chironomid egg masses also serve as primary sites for male spermatophore deposition.
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P.R. Wiles (1982) studied this question.
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