I took this the other day when I was out in the garden with the kids. Whilst most are thrown into the nearby pond I took pity on this one and showed clemency by allowing it to go about it’s business amongst my plants :?
It’s a click me!
Since moving to our rural idyll we have discovered a whole world of creeping, crawling, slithering beasties … many of which neither of us can identify or even recall ever seeing before!
One beastie that I can honestly say had entirely slipped my mind (or perhaps had just blanked out) is the famous midge bug. For the uninitiated this is a small fly mo more than 2mm in length … sounds innocent, doesn’t it?
Midges are a biting, blood sucking beastie and they don’t travel alone … they travel in clouds of millions. Although their bites itch, you couldn’t describe it as anything worse than mildly irritating, of course you have to multiple that mild irritation by 1000 and then they become a problem, even the hardiest hero would be driven to distraction by these pests.
Even if you are lucky enough to escape in-doors it won’t end. In the opening and closing of a door hundreds, if not thousands, will follow you through to devour you in the comfort of your own living room … and if you’re out camping, oh dear!
Allow me to end this diatribe by saying that I have never encountered so many midgies in all my years, even as a child in the warm and wet West coast I never had such an issue with them … and I can remember people having to scrape them off of any bare flesh they were showing in one particularly bad year.
Where midges go to die!
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