How to Use midge in a Sentence
midge
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In the clear water, the purple midge flashed like a beacon.
—Bryan Hendricks, Arkansas Online, 16 July 2023
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Aphid Midge Pollen plants will bring aphid midges to your garden.
—The Editors Of Organic Life, Good Housekeeping, 11 May 2016
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But for the thousands of moths, midges, and mayflies flitting around in the darkness, these are places of death.
—Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2017
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And these are the best flies and tactics to use during a winter midge hatch.
—John Fedorka, Field & Stream, 3 Jan. 2020
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Summer months are best, and though midges are a pest, they can be tamed with bug spray and a light breeze.
—Danielle Bernabe, National Geographic, 26 Apr. 2019
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Calabrese noted that a day in the life of an adult midge can be very stressful.
—Alexis Oatman, cleveland, 14 May 2021
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The disease is caused by a virus and is spread by midges, small biting insects.
—Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Sep. 2019
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My wasp bite was bitten by a mosquito and then a midge.
—Author: Shannyn Moore, Alaska Dispatch News, 15 July 2017
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Fly casters should try stoneflies, San Juan worms, and midges.
—sacbee, 20 Mar. 2018
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People can think that because of their small size, midges are baby mayflies.
—Emily Bamforth, cleveland, 19 May 2020
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Between the midges and the mayflies, every week there's a new infestation.
—Grant Segall, cleveland.com, 25 Mar. 2018
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The bugs are believed to be midges, which is actually good news.
—Dan Gartland, SI.com, 18 June 2018
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The riverbottom is home to huge numbers of scuds and larvae from midges, caddis, stones, and mayflies.
—John B. Snow, Outdoor Life, 28 Apr. 2020
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In fact, since some species of midges are designed for frigid water, trout sometimes eat them right through the winter.
—Morgan Lyle, Field & Stream, 30 Mar. 2020
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Clouds of midges are basically the singles bars for lake flies.
—Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 May 2018
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In 2007, the bluetongue virus—a disease spread by midge bites—began to sweep through herds of sheep and cattle across Europe.
—Popular Science, 20 May 2020
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Later that year, the Yankees were done in — not just by the Indians, but by the midges that swarmed them in a playoff game in Cleveland.
—Billy Witz, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2016
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To avoid the midges, book your trip to Scotland between late September and early May.
—Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 26 July 2023
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Dry fly action has picked up, with anglers catching fish on small midges when the sun is shining.
—Jordan Rodriguez, idahostatesman, 16 Feb. 2018
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Right now, Clevelanders are experiencing the last of the midges, a smaller Lake Erie bug that emerged in mid-May.
—Mary Kilpatrick, cleveland.com, 18 June 2019
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The virus that causes EHD is carried by a biting gnat known as a midge and is both contagious and fatal.
—Gabriela Miranda, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2021
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These are perfect conditions for midges to hatch and cluster.
—John Fedorka, Field & Stream, 3 Jan. 2020
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Adults live only about a month, hunting flies, mosquitos, and midges.
—National Geographic, 28 Apr. 2020
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But when the midge population is low, fish die and birds don’t reproduce.
—National Geographic, 8 Sep. 2016
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The mating calls of male Panama cross-banded tree frogs are synchronized to confuse bats and midges.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 28 Feb. 2024
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One such is the marine splash midge, a fly originally from Australia.
—The Economist, 12 Oct. 2017
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The midges that spread the disease take advantage of mud flats exposed as waters recede in high water years, Long said.
—Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Sep. 2019
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First detected in the stream after the stream mouth emerged from glacial ice were larvae of chironomids, cold-loving midges.
—Lesley Evans Ogden, Discover Magazine, 7 Apr. 2023
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Anglers have had success using mysis shrimp trailed with a black or red midge pattern.
—Colorado Parks & Wildlife, The Denver Post, 2 May 2017
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Again this fishing is for specialists, who score during these times with tiny nymph, midge and trico patterns.
—Bill May, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 13 Oct. 2019
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