Non-biting midges can accumulate pesticides as larvae in polluted water and retain them as adult flies (female shown above), exposing their predators to the pollutants. Advanced Search Home ...

His APS Biocontrol firm runs the Scottish Midge Forecast using weather station data. And He reckons this spring has been 1°C hotter than in 2024, with individual days as much as 4°C higher.

If a tiny, flightless midge establishes itself on mainland Antarctica, it could unleash outsized changes on the continent’s biodiversity, researchers from the University of Birmingham and British ...