Biting flies

Usage examples of midges.

He knew of large animals of the deep forest being driven mad by blackflies and midges, and now he understood how such an event could occur.

Netok walked along the sandy bank of the river, surrounded by a cloud of midges that seemed to grow larger and thicker with every stride.

What had drawn the midges this time was the rank upon rank of unprotected Malazan soldiers.

Nesting on the snow-clumps of the halo, or sometimes in flight between them, these were tiny creatures, strangely slow in flight and harmless as the idiot midges in the ballads of her hunter prince.

No braggart gnat could ever match their warrior fury, but perhaps these lazy midges would be cunning enough to furnish sport for her hunter princes.

It was big enough to hold her hive, far enough from the ugly buzzing of the midges, rich enough to feed her until her first foragers began to emerge.

Gwalchmai of nothing so much as a shim-mering swarm of midges or mayflies, which always keeps a rough group shape, inside of which each individual is always aimlessly hi motion.

Near it, a spatter of cockroaches, black, spotted, and shiny brown, was scuttling into the grass and above them wheeled and merged a little cloud of midges, shifting and shimmering in the bright sun.

They sat out on the back step, and the air was full of midges and cruising wasps, and Milo was off down to the brook.

He loped steadily along, and the swarms of midges and stinging insects could not penetrate his matted hair.

Together they watched midges, and the tentative new growth all around.