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The first frost usually kills the midge population and stops disease transmission.
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Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Will the midge remain a prominent fixture in the series?
—Lynette Rice, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2025
Outbreaks happen around the time of droughts and stop after the first freeze, which kills the midges.
—Gillian Stawiszynski, The Enquirer, 19 Aug. 2025
The species commonly feeds on the larvae of midges or flies that form galls, or growths that develop on plants as a reaction to insects and mites feeding on them, on the edges of pin oak leaves.
—Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 9 Aug. 2025
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Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Will the midge remain a prominent fixture in the series?
—Lynette Rice, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2025
Outbreaks happen around the time of droughts and stop after the first freeze, which kills the midges.
—Gillian Stawiszynski, The Enquirer, 19 Aug. 2025
The species commonly feeds on the larvae of midges or flies that form galls, or growths that develop on plants as a reaction to insects and mites feeding on them, on the edges of pin oak leaves.
—Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 9 Aug. 2025
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“Midge.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/midge. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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midge
noun
: any of numerous tiny dipteran flies (especially families Ceratopogonidae, Cecidomyiidae, and Chironomidae) many of which are capable of giving painful bites and some of which are vectors or intermediate hosts of parasites of humans and various other vertebrates see biting midge
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