Summer midges still sucking blood...

[Robert]

A expert on midges has said the tiny blood-sucking insects have been biting in November for the first time since monitoring began seven years ago.

Dr Alison Blackwell, who runs the Scottish Midge Forecast Service, said there were usually a couple of midges recorded in November.

But she said it was "very unusual" for them to be active at this time of year.

Dr Blackwell said there been no cold spell to "knock the last surviving midges of the summer on the head".

She said: "They will lurk around while it is still warm enough for them to fly and take a blood meal but as soon as we get a couple of hard frosts that will be the end of them.

"This November has been unusually mild."

We're usually safe from the little beasties by now.

Story from BBC:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-15810360

 

[cecilia]

I guess the midges haven't heard there's no such thing as climate change.....

 

[Speelgoedmannetje]

Warm spring, wet summer, warm autumn, a recipe for a plague of midges. Bit too incidental to relate it to climate change though.

 

[Robert]

Warm spring, wet summer, warm autumn, a recipe for a plague of midges. Bit too incidental to relate it to climate change though.

Agreed. If it happens for four of the next five years, then it'll be a bit more interesting.

 

[cecilia]

Warm spring, wet summer, warm autumn, a recipe for a plague of midges. Bit too incidental to relate it to climate change though.

true, but I was just being sarcastic because someone invariably makes a comment along those lines.

 

[cecilia]

Agreed. If it happens for four of the next five years, then it'll be a bit more interesting.

we are expecting a regular report