midges in English

noun

1

a small two-winged fly that is often seen in swarms near water or marshy areas where it breeds.

Included among the invertebrates are moth flies, wood gnats, midges , punkies, mosquitoes, marsh beetles, and beelike or wasplike syrphid flies.

2

a small person.

Use "midges" in a sentence

1. As the sun rose higher, millions of midges emerged.

2. Question: Syndetically effigiated Camellia midges outmaneuvering Amirship subforemanship surfeiter

3. Arboviruses are transmitted by arthropod vectors such as mosquitos, ticks, sandflies, and midges

4. A shipment of midges was sent six weeks ago to a business address in Oklahoma.

5. Your standard Bighorn flies like Zebra midges, Orange Scuds/Sowbugs, crayfish, worms, and Baetis imitations View Report

6. African horse sickness is related to bluetongue and is spread by the same midges (Culicoides species).

7. The adult flies are very delicate midges with long and slender antennae and looking very much like mayflies .

8. Bluetongue virus (BTV) is an Arbovirus transmitted to domestic and wild ruminants by certain species of Culicoides midges

9. That when it did, she believed that they would be obliterated totally, like midges slapped into nothingness by a giant.

10. Bites from midges, mosquitoes and gnats often cause small papules (lumps) to form on your skin that are usually very itchy.

11. For best results, anglers should be looking sub-surface and using blue winged olives, midges, and bugs similar to recent hatches such as pale morning duns and Caddises.

12. Like most other Catfish, Stonecats feed at night and have a varied diet, especially consuming fishes and aquatic insect larvae such as midges, Caddises, stoneflies and mayflies, as well as crustaceans and other small invertebrates

13. 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.

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15. At night they get covered in pollen, which showers down over them, and then the bristles that we saw above, they sort of wilt and allow all these midges out, covered in pollen -- fabulous thing.

16. Arthropod-borne viruses (Arboviruses) are an ecologically defined set of viruses that have in common replication in both arthropods and vertebrate hosts and transmission between vertebrate animals by the bite of mosquitoes, ticks, sandflies, and midges.

17. The Brassie is a great all-around nymph pattern that offers three great features: its wire body imitates the segmented bodies of midges and caddisflies, it's easy to tie, and it sinks like a stone—which means you can fish it deep

18. 72: I'd got a fair Bleeze going the night before so's to keep midges at bay.; Verb Bleeze (third-person singular simple present Bleezes, present participle bleezing, simple past and past participle Bleezed) (Scottish) To blaze.1824, The Glasgow mechanics' magazine; and annals of

19. Shi-Xiao Luo, Ting-Ting Liu, Fei Cui, Zi-Yin Yang, Xiao-Ying Hu, Susanne S Renner Coevolution with pollinating resin midges led to resin-filled nurseries in the Androecia, gynoecia and tepals of Kadsura (Schisandraceae), Annals of Botany 120, no.5 5 (Apr 2017): 653–664.