Prescribed fires are a common tool used in land management in southeastern USA pine savannas. However, the impact of prescribed fires on surrounding wetlands and their macroinvertebrate communities is not well documented. Furthermore, it is unclear how prescribed fire affects linkages between these terrestrial and aquatic habitats over short timescales. We hypothesized that prescribed fire would enhance nutrient inputs to wetlands, stimulating the production of non-predatory macroinvertebrates and emerging insects (primarily Chironomidae) that provide a subsidy to the terrestrial environment. We paired these field data with a laboratory microcosm experiment to test how allochthonous organic matter type (burned vs mixed vs unburned x light vs dark) affects non-predatory Chironomidae larval survival, growth, and adult emergence. Initial field data suggested fire had little to no significant effect on non-predatory Chironomidae production, but high predator densities (primarily other Diptera) likely suppressed this production in cypress dome swamps. Data are forthcoming from depression marshes. Initial lab data suggest that burned or mixed allochthonous inputs stimulate greater adult emergence than unburned allochthonous inputs when exposed to light, but the opposite held when light was excluded. These data help bridge a knowledge gap on the impacts of prescribed fire on terrestrial-aquatic-terrestrial linkages by quantifying fire impacts on aquatic macroinvertebrates and emerging insects.