Scottish Midges ( Not good if your wearing a Kilt) Summer visitors to Scotland need to be aware of a fact of life that is usually not headline material in tourist literature: midges . Midges are tiny swarming insects that occur across large portions of the globe. However, the particular sub-species of the midge that is found in Scotland is known as the Highland Midge, or Culicoides Impunctatus: and it has a reputation for being more ferocious than most . It is the female midge that bites. It can only lay its eggs after it has had a blood meal; which is where you and I come in. Midges start to become a problem in June and usually last through to August when their numbers diminish rapidly, before they finally disappear with the first real frost of autumn. The numbers of midges vary considerably from year to year, depending on the severity of the preceding winter, the amount of spring rainfall, and the temperature.
Posted on: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 11:48:37 +0000
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