Phenotypic Plasticity and Adaptation in a Holometabolous Insect: The Chironomid Midge

<table>A female chironomid midge (<i>Paratrichocladius rufiventris</i>), with several bright red mites attached to her ventral surface (the female is c. 2 mm long), (photo by A. J. McLachlan).</table>

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Figure 5: Phenotypic Plasticity and Adaptation in a Holometabolous Insect: The Chironomid Midge 