Justin McMechan, University of Nebraska crop protection and cropping systems specialist, wrote the following for the UN’s ...

Only recently discovered, in 2017, soybean gall midge is a significant and fast-spreading new pest to Midwest growers. Significant yield reductions may occur, especially at the field edge where ...

Gall midge primarily affects Nebraska, Iowa, South Dakota, Minnesota and Missouri.². Infection spreads along field edges at first and typically causes higher yield reduction in those areas.

Gall midges, belonging to the family Cecidomyiidae, are minute dipteran insects renowned for their capacity to induce gall formation on a wide range of host plants. These galls, which arise from ...

Midges start to appear when the Lake Erie water temperature reaches around 60 degrees and can be found throughout summer. An individual's lifespan is usually a few days to a few weeks.

Warmer weather has brought in new concerns about midges, ticks and much-distained spotted lanternflies. Here’s what to know about possible health hazards, environmental threats and impacts to… ...

Over 95% of the U.S. general population has quantifiable serum levels of PFAS, with a mean of 2 to 5 parts per billion (ppb) for perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), ...

It's midge season in Ohio, and Cedar Point visitors are finding out the hard way what happens when the roller coaster sends you into a swarm of insects at 120 mph.. And it isn't pretty. Reddit ...

In summers long ago, when midges were active on humid summer evenings, or ants began to appear in large numbers, our elders told us rain way was surely on the way. And it invariably was ...

Midges have crashed the party at the 2025 Osaka Expo. Chironomid midges, which closely resemble mosquitoes, have been found swarming in huge numbers across the site.

In July of 1979, Midge Ure was drafted as a guitarist in Thin Lizzy to replace Gary Moore, who abruptly left the band during their U.S. tour. Within 24 hours of saying “Yes,” Ure was on a ...