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CHIRONOMIDAE (DIPTERA) ASSOCIATED WITH MYRIOPHYLLUM SPICATUM IN OKANAGAN VALLEY LAKES, BRITISH COLUMBIA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

B.J. Kangasniemi  and
D. R. Oliver
B.J. Kangasniemi
Affiliation:
Water Management Branch, British Columbia, Ministry of Environment, Victoria, British Columbia V8V 1X5
D. R. Oliver
Affiliation:
Biosystematics Research Institute, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0C6
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Eurasian water milfoil, Myriophyllum spicatum Linnaeus, was introduced into eastern North America late in the nineteenth century. It has spread and developed into a major aquatic weed in many areas of the United states and Canada (Aiken et al. 1979; Reed 1977). In British Columbia, it was first observed in the Vernon Arm of Okanagan Lake in 1970 and had spread to all major 1,akes in the Okanagan Valley by 1976 (Newroth 1979).

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 115 , Issue 11 , November 1983 , pp. 1545 - 1546
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1983

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