Sentence examples for the midge from inspiring English sources

The bloodred aquatic larvae of some species of the midge Chironomus of the insect family Chironomidae are also called bloodworms.

I remember perfect long, hot summers - your memory edits out the midge bites and the appalling weather.

If they want to play down the Midge Ure comparisons, they should probably rethink having a song called Verona.

The diatoms can grow in rocky portions of the lake where the midge larvae cannot burrow, and after the midge population crashes, the diatoms eventually float back to the now midge-less sediments and the cycle begins anew.

Other times, the midge population remains roughly constant for years before resuming the boom-and-bust cycle.

In the midge, a type of fly, the bisexual phase occurs in adults, and parthenogenesis takes place among the larvae (paedogenesis).

Using sheep as bait for trapping, approximately 50% of the midges captured at a site in The Netherlands were C. chiopterus and around 40% were C. obsoletus[ 26].

And if it gets boringly bogged down in the minutiae of recreating American locations in the midge-infested Lake District, then the romance of its central idea is resilient.

Then came the midges.

I can even forget about the midges.

"Maybe he's mad at the midges".