Cedar Creek
Natural History Area


Insects of Cedar Creek

Order DIPTERA

Family PSYCHODIDAE

(Moth/Sand Flies)

(Table of Species)

The Moth Flies (90 NA spp) constitute a relatively small family of tiny flies with hair-covered wings. Adults generally occur around excrement where they breed and their larvae feed. Perhaps 4 species in the genera Pericoma and Psychoda have been collected at Cedar Creek.


jhaar@lter.umn.edu Last updated May, 2000