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Description: for a nice sort of sheltered spot often they come and sit in the cars although but on a tree somewhere on branches you'll see them resting just an area where they're not going to get beaten by the rain remember a lot of these little midges and things are absolutely tiny and you can crush them between your fingers so a big rain drop would

Kenneth Oppel

I wrote 'Airborn' after completing three books about bats. I loved my bats, but what a treat it was to write about humans again. They could eat food other than midges and mosquitoes, they wore clothing, they slept in beds - all this struck me as wonderfully novel.

Canadian Author

Richard Preston

Dragonflies kill their prey in the air and eat it on the wing. They feed on aerial plankton, which consists of any sort of small living thing that happens to be aloft - mosquitoes, midges, moths, flies, ballooning spiders.

American Writer

Clive Anderson

I am attached to the west coast of Scotland - it's gorgeous to look at and challenging. You have to contend with the possibility of being blown away or rained on. And in the summer months you can be eaten alive by midges.

English Entertainer

Midges are often considered annoying pests that can ruin outdoor activities.

Pesky Nuisance

Expect to encounter midges mostly in nature, especially during summer evenings or in damp areas.

Outdoor Encounters

In areas infested with midges, wearing protective clothing or using repellents is advisable.

Protection Needed

Midges are commonly found near lakes, ponds, and rivers; their presence indicates water nearby.

Near Water

Midge activity increases around dusk, making them more noticeable and bothersome at this time.

Evening Activity

Midges have a larval stage that occurs in water before they become flying adults.

Larval Stage

 for a nice sort of sheltered spot often they come and sit in the cars although but on a tree somewhere on branches you'll see them resting just an area where they're not going to get beaten by the rain remember a lot of these little midges and things are absolutely tiny and you can crush them between your fingers so a big rain drop would

See Elephants at Their...

 And if you look down into it, there's this sort of dam past the spadix, flies get attracted by the heat -- which is boiling off volatile chemicals, little midges -- and they get trapped underneath in this container. They drink this fabulous nectar and then they're all a bit sticky.

Jonathan Drori: The...

 above ambient temperature amazing and if you look down into it this is sort of down past the spadix the Flies get attracted by the heat which is boiling off volatile chemicals at little midges and they get trapped underneath in this container they drink

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 and there's like little pond skaters and midges but there is a little character that we waiting for him to Pike his head up any minute now above the surface of the water because he needs to come up for a breath so we just waiting for mu

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 insects flying around that you can see the light catches every now and then but not super substantial meal for I can't ago thing they prefer to eat some bigger insects rather than catching something the size of the size of a midge like

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 their iridescent coming off his feathers and the little midges buzzing around his head now we've had a bit of it interesting development on the opposite bank is now that big herd of zebras which also has come to join the bull the

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 date today after the rain last night which would have caused an absolute exposed explosion of insect life and speaking of that right next to us and making art there are thousands of little midges of course we're right near some

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 today I can see little ripples here and there one of their little boatman or just riders skidding across the water definitely some little midges or flies or sorters or black specks that you can see on the top of the water

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 of a dragonflies vision as it catches a tiny midge in midair dragonflies have been around for 300 million years since before the dinosaurs in this time they fine-tuned their eyes to see their world in slow motion

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