Not all Scotland's midges are this big. As Summer approaches, here's what you need to know about the smaller ones: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usfeatures/midges/index.html
Not all Scotland's midges are this big. As Summer approaches, here's what you need to know about the smaller ones: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usfeatures/midges/index.html
RE: https://mstdn.social/@rayotron/116512903295824811
Naively, I assumed that #Ireland had only one type of #midge.
Thanks to the fediverse I met some experts. And the midge situation is much worse than I feared.
Ran across an interesting paper - the use of #DNA sequencing to show that an #invasive insect species in Japan (Chaoborus punctipennis, a phantom #midge) originated in North America. #entomology
https://www.reabic.net/journals/bir/2023/1/BIR_2023_Salmela_etal.pdf