[nippa&pippa]

How we can deal with midges?????
We got thousands or millions of midges hanging upside down on the verandah at the moments. :exit
With they are so close to windows, we wondering how we can get rid of them or prevent them coming into house during warm nights? any tip before summer coming please :)

[BaldyBeardyBloke]

Flamethrower?

[nippa&pippa]

Flamethrower?

:laugh :laugh

[DMcG]

I didn't think we got midges in NZ - at least not the biting ones that plaque the west coast of Scotland! I'm alergic to insect bites so I usually have problems with mosquitos here. There's a little plug in unit that you can buy in many places - it simply plugs into a wall socket and you screw in a bottle of liquid underneath. We use a couple in the house and leave them on all summer. They do a wonderful job of keeping the mossies out. Not sure if they work for midges though :confused:

Dougie

[nippa&pippa]

I didn't think we got midges in NZ

MIDGE

(Chironomus zealandicus).

The common New Zealand midge occurs throughout the country and is associated with most freshwater rivers and lakes. The adult is attracted to light and can be a serious nuisance at night time in houses which are close to water. Midges do not bite, nor do they act as vectors for any disease. They breed throughout the year but most prolifically in summer. The larval stage is the so-called “blood-worm” which is common in the mud at the bottom of most freshwater areas. Large-scale breeding, which will produce adults numerous enough to be a nuisance to humans, occurs in large shallow lakes. Thus, for example, Lake Ellesmere in Canterbury and the man-made shallow oxidation ponds associated with sewage purification works as in Auckland, are renowned sources of plagues of midges. The adult midge is about 5 mm in length and has a superficial resemblance to a mosquito. Adults fly at dusk on calm nights in mating swarms but during daylight hours they rest and hide in vegetation near their breeding sites.

this is a copy from wiki ;)

I live just down the road from Lake Ellesmere (about 10km) that poss explain why we end up with millions of midges! Especially we have brooks and pond at end of our boundary, belong to next door.

[BaldyBeardyBloke]

A really big flamethrower then :D

[nippa&pippa]

A really big flamethrower then :D

:roll :laugh

[DMcG]

Oh good!

Definately not the same beastie then -
The Highland midge (scientific name: Culicoides impunctatus) is a tiny insect, found in wet places especially in the north-west of Scotland during spring and summer. Highland midges are well known for gathering in clouds, biting humans, and being extremely annoying. Midges can reach very high numbers and in one study 5 million midges were collected from an area of only two square metres.

It has been suggested (somewhat controversially, perhaps) that the reason so much land in Scotland is under-developed is that the midge has repelled settlers.

Dougie

[nippa&pippa]

no dougie, lucky midges doesn't bite us!! :nice1