You and Olaf and I are the wolves and the flies and the midges again--and the strafing will be about due.
Less than the flies I crush with my hand, less than midges in the sunbeam!
There, of a truth, black midges had appeared, coming up over the world's rim like a startled covey of quail.
Midges could catch a hawk as readily as they could overhaul this Eagle of the Sky.
Wasps are rather plentiful in some seasons, but the midges are always in swarms on warm calm evenings from July to October.
This would be about September 1711, and the midges were in full force.
Fishing is out of the question if it be so calm that the midgesare bad.
Most remarkable, in many respects, of all aquatic larvae are the grubs of the Sand-midges (Simulium).
The aquatic pupae of other Diptera, many species of the midges Chironomus and Simulium for example, breathe dissolved air by means of tufts of thread-like gills, which arise on either side of the prothorax.
Extended observations on the precocious reproductive processes of these midges have lately been published by W.
The people gather these minute insects by night, and boil them into thick cakes, to be used as a relish--millions of midges in a cake.
He was waiting for the midgesto bite him, before abandoning the glory of the afternoon.
What infinitely tiny Midges does she capture before possessing the strength to stab her Bee?
They rode through banks of midges so huge that they almost reached the dignity of mosquitoes.
For where in the world except on the lonely road past Clatteringshaws and the Loch of the Lilies, can you meet with midges which for number and ferocity can compare with those of the Moors of Wigtonshire?
The gnats or midges will stir in us an indignant hostility; since their tribe have been known to poison the blood of man.
Let an animal enter upon the scene, or a bird, or a windblown butterfly, or a flickering flight of midges or gnats, their small bodies illumined by the sun.
Not always, however: some midges seem to delight in it.
Midges nearly drove crazy the same companion of mine, so that finally he jumped into the river, clothes and all, to get rid of them.
The black fly will keep you busy until late afternoon; the midges will swarm you about sunset; and the mosquito will preserve the tradition after you have turned in.
Here the first midges of the year will come to slake their thirst.
The rare Midges that fall to my assiduous efforts do not appear to tempt them.
Jan could feel its farewell grip again; he was back in the study full of garden smells and midges in the lamplight.
The prey consists chiefly of the young larvae of midges (Chironomidae) and may-flies, but small copepod and phyllopod crustacea are also captured.
On this march themidges were dreadfully annoying the whole way, and we were surrounded with clouds of them the whole time.
The midges or sand flies were very troublesome the whole way and came in hundreds round one's head, got inside one's topee, and were thoroughly objectionable.
When beginning our entomological studies no fact seemed more astonishing to our boyish mind than the thought that the little flies and midges were not the sons and daughters of the big ones.
I don't know when he would have got up again, if the gnats and the midges had not taken compassion on him.
Midges sting her and raise uninteresting little marks upon her face, thereby doing irremediable damage for the time being.
As the evening declines, the midges muster in great force.
Many things I thought of, sitting there, till the sun sank below the moor line, the wind died off the clover, and the midges slept.
Nor at the moment did we derive great comfort from the thought that life slips in and out of sheath, like sun-sparks on water, and that of all the cloud of summer midgesdancing in the last gleam, not one would be alive to-morrow.
The heat from the dropping sun, not far now above the moorline, struck full into the ferns and long grass of the bank where I was sitting, and the midges rioted on me in this last warmth.
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