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Post: #1 (ID: 71273)

CAN YOU BE WORK OOT WHIT CULLUR BE GOOD 'N WHIT BE BAD? Laugh Out Loud

A MIDGE^

Midges die off in freezing cold
Freezing temperatures are believed to have killed off a "proportion" of Scotland's midge population.
Expert Dr Alison Blackwell said midge larvae that spends winter a few centimetres below ground will have been vulnerable to the prolonged cold spell. But she said most midges, numbered in the trillions, will have survived.
Tourists put off returning to Scotland after being repeatedly bitten by the tiny insect is estimated to cost the tourism industry £286m a year.
Dr Blackwell said: "The hard winter is going to kill off a proportion of the wintering midge population, but you have to remember there are trillions of midge.

"If we have a nice warm, damp spring there will be a big midges emergence as have seen previously."
Edinburgh-based Dr Blackwell added: "But hopefully there may be a few less."

Expired insects

Last summer, two men cycling from Land's End to John O'Groats in their underwear for charity were badly bitten by midges shortly after reaching the Highlands.
Adam Dunn and Gavin Topley, from Branksome, near Bournemouth, had taken no other clothes, money, food or insect repellent for their journey.

They relied on offers of free accommodation and meals. Laugh Out Loud

However, also last summer, a woman on Skye was using midges as a key ingredient in food for wild birds. Housewife Elaine Bunce added the biting insect to beef dripping and flour to create her Original Highland Midge Bites. She advertised in a local newspaper for people to send her expired insects collected from midge killing machines, as it takes a thousand for each ball.

Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/scotland/highlands_and_islands/8542670.stm

Published: 2010/03/01 10:16:42 GMT

© BBC MMX

Post: #2 (ID: 71276)

Oooh I think we can tell!

I hate them with a passion.

Two tips, never wear yellow, and do use Avon Skin so Kindly, or something like that - despite not being formulated to repel insects I've heard excellent reports.

Here's my good news/bad news report

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1254900/Revenge-chicken-Three-hens-cockerel-named-» Dude-peck-fox-death-broken-coop.html

Post: #3 (ID: 71279)

Post: #4 (ID: 71302)

They took TV cameras down there, I saw it on the news!

Post: #5 (ID: 71306)

Yep- saw it oan news tae....................... them chooks be hereoes noo!