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And male midges live their whole adult life in just one to three hours.

"There are five kinds of midges and we have them all," he said.

He attributed the trend less to midges than to modernity.

For two reasons it is not: midges and numbing cold.

The members of the family are sometimes known as "frog-biting midges".

This allows the population of midges, at the third level, to proliferate.

The fish are scooping midges off the surface of the lake.

Midges danced in the air; the world was hazy with heat.

Pham smiled at the pictures coming in from his midges.

Don't moan about the midges: they are a part of life.

Well, a book might serve to swat the midges, but did anyone at the festival get the chance to actually open one?

Some midges may even move indoors to avoid the cold temperature of the winter.

Then the sun came out, and with it mosquitoes and midges.

I saw no one on the long lonely road home, and the only enemy that attacked me was the midges.

The midges didn't seem to trouble him at all.

The ship was passing through a cloud of midges hovering over the river.

Jamie shook his head, batting away a small cloud of midges.

In the process he found out that there is a natural incompatibility between midges of different origin.

So they bred a race from California and French midges.

The air was also full of the midges.

They looked like tiny white midges next to the pitted dark bulk of the huge rock.

The midges scattered themselves as though fragments of an exploding bomb.

The airmen will go to and fro over water as the midges do.

Midges can be a problem to summer visitors in countryside areas close to lakes and rivers.

The gnats and midges were out in force now.