Is this a midge?

[scottyp123]

There is a bit of a farm at the back of me and every year I get plagued by these little fkers, my doors have only got to be open for a couple of minutes and they make a bee-line for my living room, they are fairly slow movers and quite easy to kill but yet again my evenings are starting to get dominated by me chasing them round the room with a pillow.

This is in Manchester by the way, not as if I am in deepest darkest Scotland.

[Equus]

Yes

[snowandrocks]

Difficult to tell the scale but midges (here in Scotland at least) are tiny, barely visible unless in large clouds.

https://youtu.be/Ox8SwZCvugE

[loskie]

no

[Boosted LS1]

That's what I thought.

[r159]

Blimey I miss read post subject...

[Equus]

snowandrocks said:

Difficult to tell the scale but midges (here in Scotland at least) are tiny, barely visible unless in large clouds.

There are many different species, and 'midge' is a bit of a colloquial, catch-all term for various small diptera (2-winged flies), anyway.

But you're right, it's not a Highland Midge (Culicoides impunctatus)

If you want to get technical it looks like some sort of Wood Gnat (family Anisopodidae), probably genus Sylvicola, but there are 80-odd different species of Sylvicola, alone.

Wood gnat larvae feed on decaying matter, so if there's a farm near the OP. it's probably a dung-heap or similar that's attracting them.

[Boosted LS1]

Does it bite us? Is the question.

[Frankthered]

Boosted LS1 said:

Does it bite us? Is the question.

Is it wrong that I heard ", Preciouss?" on the end of your question?

[Equus]

Frankthered said:

Is it wrong that I heard ", Preciouss?" on the end of your question?

The answer is no, though. You're generally safe unless you're a fungus.

[Boosted LS1]

Frankthered said:

Boosted LS1 said:

Does it bite us? Is the question.

Is it wrong that I heard ", Preciouss?" on the end of your question?

[scottyp123]

snowandrocks said:

Difficult to tell the scale but midges (here in Scotland at least) are tiny, barely visible unless in large clouds.

https://youtu.be/Ox8SwZCvugE

Hows that? it could be a little longer than normal seen as I've just pancaked it with a fking cushion but they are about the size of a small fly normally and they certainly make a beeline for me trying to bite me.

[otolith]

Scottish midges are tiny, millimetres long with striped wings. I get them in my garden in Lancashire. They’re little bds.

Generally the midges that look like mosquitoes and are mosquito sized or a bit bigger are harmless non-biting midges.

[Turn7]

otolith said:

Scottish midges are tiny, millimetres long with striped wings. I get them in my garden in Lancashire. They’re little bds.

Generally the midges that look like mosquitoes and are mosquito sized or a bit bigger are harmless non-biting midges.

So, a smidge smaller then ?

[otolith]

Turn7 said:

So, a smidge smaller then ?

[Turn7]

[otolith]