An Unidentified Midge

Maybe I should say unidentifiable, cause he was dead when I found him and then he got squished when I put the cover-slip on the slide. He looked like a speck of dust to start with, and was already dead. I had to use tweezers to pick it up. Anyway, he's kind of interesting at 100x to 200x magnification.

1. The abdomen.

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neat series, Mitch

Thanks Dean. This is one of those tiny midges that if you got on in your eye, you would just blink it away. It was so small I almost didn't see it at all. LOL

nice shots...this is male midge as they have antenna wit lots of hair...

Thanks Rakesh. Can you tell that it is a midge? I don't really know, it's only the size of one wing on a mosquito. Really, really small.

i think so...as i often find them in my place...this is a male midge shot i have taken long time age n have posted it here then...does it looked like this...the second image is small one just like u said it was size of mosquito's wing(cropped it a lot)...i dont no the ID for it but i fell its a male midge small one...or may be a mosquito

Yes, it is like the second one. See the antenna cups on the head? Mine had those too. But mine was already dead when I found it. There were a bunch of them on my bed in the morning, under the overhead light. They came in last night and were flying around the light until I turned it off last night.

perhaps i was wrong then...it can be a new born male mosquito...

I don't think this is a mosquito. I have seem mosquitoes emerge from the water, and they are already full sized.

hi Mitch i have been looking/searching lots of images on google image i have found this site http://www.animalsurve​y.com/mosquitos.htm...it looks similar to the one i have posted(#2 image) and as per what u say...look in the midge section down...i hope this site helps...

Thats a great page for identification and I have bookmarked it. I did not see a exact match though. My midge was most definitely not interested in me. It flew around the ceiling light with some of his buddies and only seemed to live a few hours before it died. It was way too tiny to see any detail without magnification. I can see a mosquito, but this was just a dot. LOL