After a cold winter, rising temps trigger the emergence of a perennial Lowcountry nuisances: the no-see-um or sand gnat.

About 90% of flowering plants rely on animals to transfer their pollen and optimize reproduction, making pollination one of ...

Many have wished for those pesky flies to just disappear, but the truth of what their extinction would do to Earth's ...

Florida distribution records are presented for five additional previously described species. The midges from Blackshear, Georgia, previously reported as Probezzia nigra Wirth, were misidentified, and ...

A horror virus spread by midges wiped out 92 newborn lambs on an Ayrshire farm, it’s emerged. Dundonald farmer Michael Goldie saw nearly two-thirds of his 152 lambs killed last month by the deadly ...

From the earliest spellings (e.g. Muggehala 1182) toponymists believe Monkhall originally meant 'nook infested by midges' from the Old English mycg/midge and halh/nook. That suggests that it was ...

Antarctica’s only native insect, the Antarctic midge, has finally given up some of its tightly held survival secrets, thanks to a new study by researchers at Osaka Metropolitan University. Researchers ...

Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands – Tuesday, 18 February 2025: The Turks and Caicos Islands have been experiencing an increase in non-biting midges around wetland areas. While harmless to ...

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