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Scot here, can confirm these tiny, winged devils have always been around to some extent. Still, I prefer them to midges :-/
by GordonS 2y ago
Scot here, can confirm these tiny, winged devils have always been around to some extent.
Still, I prefer them to midges :-/
- hkt 2y agoHang on.. they're not the same thing?!
- GordonS 2y agoNo, see Gerdesj's sibling comment, it's the perfect description! (midges are smaller, but you get clouds of them!)
- secondcoming 2y agoNo. Midges are smaller than fruit flies.
- gerdesj 2y agoWe had a aircraft called a Mosquito that was given a status of two kills if brought down by Axis forces during WW2 due to being a major pest. We need to field one called a Midge. It would be a drone and there would be millions of them.
- mc32 2y agoThere is the midget mustang. It's an aerobatic aircraft, so not quite fit for an airforce: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustang_Aeronautics_Midget_Mustang https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustang_Aeronautics_Midget_Mus...
- gerdesj 2y agoMidget means small and a midget mustang is a small horse! Midge should mean "daemon insect". The sodding things (Scottish Highland midge) really are quite unpleasant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_midge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_midge
- prerok 2y agoGeez, yes, we only have mosquitos and I didn't think there's a worse thing :/ Though I encountered them only in quantity in Milford Sound in New Zealand. I was in Scotland for three months (Edinburgh) and did not encounter them. Have they spread?
- GordonS 2y agoYou only see them during summer... which usually lasts around 8 days ;)