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Sentence Examples Dedicated fundraisers are set to take on everything from swarms of midges to blisters when they set off on a 100-mile walk. But as well as spending most of the night hunting for midges and mosquitoes, the nocturnal animals are always searching for new daytime hangouts. Arctic as well as temperate chironomid midges build special winter cocoons that are distinct from those made in summer. Arctic species of mayflies, scale insects, midges, caddisflies and other groups are known to be parthenogenetic. Rations include a variety of insect larvae, especially mayflies, blackflies, caddis flies, and midges. Unlike gall midges, thrips have a wide host range, feeding on the flowers of many species of plants. Experts on arguably the nation's most ferocious beast, say the cold February and March mean midges will appear about a month later than normal. The irritating midges plague outdoor workers at the home of Britain's nuclear deterrent on Gareloch all year round. Ask any fisherman what his greatest enemies are and high on the list will come midges, flat calms and leaking waders. Mossies and midges are attracted to the carbon dioxide and various cetyl alcohols you give off especially from your toes. Popularity is not always a good thing, especially when you seem to be a siren for this country's 18 different species of mosquitoes and midges. The most important insects vary with the season but the bulk of them are either mayflies, caddis, midges or terrestrials. It's a time capsule of baronial Scottish splendour circa 1880-minus the midges. This is a place for snow, ice hardened drifts, yet on a January day, midges danced over the streams. The children's trays began to fill with mayfly nymphs, aquatic sow bugs, and the larvae of blackflies, caddis flies, and bloodred midges. The water's crawling with the larvae of brine flies and midges these waterfowl love. Also, midges have a nasty habit of crawling up trouser legs and even into lace-holes on hiking boots, so they will get you one way or another. I quickly left the midges behind but they were not about to give up and descending into Tarsaughaun, I could hear the hum at fifty yards. When the midges are at their most aggressive, their attacks are worse than any snow or rain. On such an evening the local bat population takes wing, hundreds of them, feeding on the rising midges. Show More Sentences The tsetse fly transmits sleeping sickness, midges transmit lumpy skin disease and three-day stiff sickness. The midge-magnet sucks in female midges by mimicking the smell of flatulent cows. Back on dry land we warm up with a hearty buffet, eaten al fresco among the midges. The worms are actually the dark-red larvae of non-biting mosquito-like insects known as chironomids, more commonly called midges. A beam of light had broken through the canopy and caught the motes of dust and tiny midges floating around in the golden light. The tsetse fly transmits sleeping sickness, midges transmits lumpy skin disease and three-day stiff sickness. In a small pocket there you will find a lot of biting midges flying around, and I walked into them. We conducted taxonomic and bionomicstudies on the chironomid midges emerging from and around the sewage treatment plant of Kurobe City. It is, of course, the midges and the clegs who present the major problem to the Scottish naturist. Included among the invertebrates are moth flies, wood gnats, midges, punkies, mosquitoes, marsh beetles, and beelike or wasplike syrphid flies. This type of feeding can be found among certain spiders, mantids, scorpions, copepods, and midges. Only an attack by a voracious swarm of midges then spoilt a leisurely paddle under a warm, summer sun on a perfect, windless day. In paedogenetic gall midges, if fungal food resources remain plentiful, the larvae will repeat the paedogenetic life cycle. Most people would probably mistake them for small flies, such as gnats or midges. Probably the most common method of transmission is by means of biting insects such as mosquitoes, midges, and flies. In the 19th century, USDA researchers discovered that mosquitoes, ticks, flies, and midges spread disease from animal to animal. Mass emergences of midges near large lakes often fill the sticky surface and cleaning them all off would remove all the sticky substance anyway. There are reportedly more snails, midges and tubifex worms, but fewer caddisflies and mayflies. Upon emergence as adults, these midges can cause a nuisance with their dense swarms. The family appears to be a member of the extant group Sciaroidea, which includes fungus gnats and gall midges, though precise relationships remain unclear. Show More Sentences The Diptera include files, mosquitoes, gnats, midges, and no-see-ums. The very first inning in the field, while I was safely drowsing in left field, fending off the midges, a long drive sailed over my head, heading for the outfield fence. The sample without SAFI merely had 5 species, which were contaminative index species, e.g. larvae of mosquito Culicidae and midges Chironomidae. Last night's abortive attempts at a barbeque, despite lashings of the odd smelling spray, proved that the only way of avoiding midges is to stay indoors. Damp almost certainly means midges, something often overlooked when a garden is planned in midwinter, so this is not the ideal spot for summer suppers under the stars. The light traps also attracted a large number of other insects such as moths and midges. The Pugnose Minnow feeds on zooplankton and larvae of aquatic insects such as midges. Environmental conditions play a major role in the occurrence and persistance of this disease transmitted by midges. Haemoproteus species are transmitted by biting midges and louse flies. Despite balmy temperatures, you'll need to pack pants, long-sleeved shirts, and, yes, even socks, to fend off the hordes of biting sand fleas and midges on the Tuichi River. Bundaberg is blessed with its very own biting midges, also known as sandflies, that are indigenous to the Burnett River and breed in the river mud. Haemoproteus is transmitted by sandflies, or biting midges, of the genus Culicoides, and by louse-flies, both of which occur in the Lesser Antilles. A new era of chromosome research began with the detection of giant chromosomes in tissues of Dipteran insects, the midges Bibio and Chironomus, and the fruit fly Drosophila. Bites from midges, mosquitoes and mites are normally very itchy. The portable machine was devised by Calor Gas and midge expert Dr Alison Blackwell and can clear midges from an area half the size of a football field using carbon dioxide. Alasdair McCrone, the artistic director, said the 35-year-old theatre, which has just 43 seats, is located in a wooded area and every summer is plagued by swarms of midges. The other night, trying to read an improving book in the bath, the room began filling with mosquitoes, midges and a small brown winged bug I didn't hang about to identify. We are warned about the dreaded black biting flies, but having spent many a camping holiday in Skye and Ardnamurchan, where midges rule supreme, I reckon I can cope. Bugs, though not as many as there would be naturally, hung around her head in a perpetual cloud, midges and no-see-ums buzzing in her ear and sucking on her sweat. Officials are waiting to see whether the recent outbreak was caused by a few midges blown over from the continent or whether it has become endemic, in which case it will reappear in spring. Show More Sentences Whilst the swarms which surround you are annoying, they do not bite. It is the midges, clegs and ticks you should be on the lookout for. Fearing an attack of the dreaded midgie, organisers had installed massive machines to suck midges away from the venue. In the Detroit River, specifically the Trenton Channel, benthic communities are limited by degraded sediment quality as indicated by the high number of pollution tolerant worms and midges. An adequate proportion of the midges collected in the insect traps must be sent to a specialised laboratory capable of counting and identifying Culicoides species on a routine basis. A proportion of the midges collected in the aspiration traps must be sent to a specialised laboratory capable of counting and identifying the suspected vector species. Bluetongue is quiescent over the winter, when it is too cold for midges. But the disease has been established in southern Europe since 1998, perhaps because a warmer climate makes life easier for the midges that transmit it. An increase in the contribution of other species in Hamilton Harbour sediment indicative of mesotrophic conditions such as midges, fingernail clams, mayflies, and the amphipod Pontoporeia hoyi. These same pools are also important breeding areas for invertebrates such as some caddisflies and midges, and these, in turn, are important food for bats and many bird species. HealthGuard Vital Protection is a unique, long lasting fabric finish that has been designed to provide essential protection against mosquitoes, midges and other nasty, biting insects. The current spread of Bluetounge among livestock is partially due to biting midges of the Ceratopogonidae family. These are not to be confused with the more common midges of the Simuliidae family. On September 22nd, a cow in Suffolk was said to have contracted Britain's first-ever case of bluetongue disease, a virus carried by midges that also affects sheep and other ruminants. It is resistant to stem borers, shoot flies and midges. Chronic effects of the herbicide Diuron on freshwater cladocerans, amphipods, midges, minnows, worms, and snails. Aphids are readily preyed upon by predatory gall midges which live on wild cherry and lupines but they prefer warmer weather and often appear too late in the season to provide satisfactory control. The droppings held bloodworms, which grow up to be midges that look like small mosquitoes. He moves away the mosquitos, midges, chips, ticks, aoûtats, bugs. And it is, but it's related to the density of the biting midges rather than deer. As a rule more setae and circumfilar loops of gall midges are disposed on the ventral half of the flagellomeres. Hummers are midges, a limmer is a scoundrel, to be sackless is to be innocent, a scrapple is a fight or disturbance and yedd means to go. Show More Sentences Lesser horseshoe bats mainly eat small flying insects such as midges but they also take crane flies, moths and caddis flies. As they can carry some dreadful diseases, mozzie defence is very important. It seems the types of mozzies and midges change from area to area. Little pipistrelles go for small flies, midges and mosquitoes and can catch as many as 3,000 in one night. I've been on a loch and seen so many midges hatching that there was a one-foot wide tidal mark at the water's edge of discarded pupal cases or shucks. Lorraine said she had been worried about Scotland's famous biting midges. I'd got a fair bleeze going the night before so's to keep midges at bay. Emergence holes were counted concurrently on both species and classified according to whether they were the result of emerging gall midges or parasitoids. The remaining insects included larvae of midges, soldier-flies, horse-flies, may-flies, a hymenopteron, and a bird louse, of a species known to infest the Shoveller. Dr Peter Bates, a independent parasitologist and entomologist, said that controlling midges during breeding times and pregnancy is a sensible move. Topics covered range from scorpions, spiders, ants, and bees to mites, ticks, lice, bed bugs, sand flies, biting midges, mosquitoes, and horseflies. Examples from Classical Literature The next morning Nan was tacking up some tarlatan at a window to keep the midges out. They disobey the second law of thermodynamics, rising in a lighter liquid, as midges rise in the tenuous air. But there is little that can be done after the midges have been on the warpath. Here I was not only troubled by a cloud of stinging midges, but far more by the doubts of my mind. And the willow-wren summoned everything which flew in the air, not only birds, large and small, but midges, and hornets, bees and flies had to come. Find more words! 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