biting midge

Biting midges are sometimes incorrectly referred to as sand flies.

Leptoconopinae is a subfamily of biting midges in the family Ceratopogonidae.

Communities should also maintain the natural vegetation around them to decrease the possible breeding grounds for the biting midges.

Biting midges progress from egg, to larva, pupa, and finally the adult stage.

Ceratopogonini is a tribe of biting midges.

The disease exists in Africa and tropical Americas, spread by biting midges or blackflies.

At the bottom of the slope the track turned soggy and clouds of biting midges rose up to torment them.

Like the biting midges, blackflies attack their victims in swarms and their bites are painful.

The virus has an incubation period of approximately one week, during which the animal may transmit the virus to biting midges.

The Ceratopogonidae (biting midges) include serious blood-sucking pests, feeding both on humans and other mammals.

Vectors are biting midges (Ceratopogonidae).

Since biting midges cannot bite through clothing, those living in the Caribbean should wear long-sleeved shirts and pants to decrease the body parts exposed.

The particular species linked to the virus are the biting midges Culicoides oxystoma and C. nipponensis.

Ceratopogonidae, biting midges (also known as no-see-ums or punkies in North America)

The fungi can be found in black flies, mosquitoes, solitary midges, and non-biting and biting midges.

Biting midges or No see-ums (Ceratopogonidae)

Biting midges, also known as no-see-ums (no-see-em, noseeum), are insects that belong to a different biological group and should not be confused with the sandflies.

Dasyhelea is a genus of biting midges and the only genus of its subfamily, the Dasyheleinae.

Kiefferomyia, a genus of biting midges (now included in Kieffer's own genus Schizohelea)

The mosquitoes and biting midges rose in black clouds from the mud holes and swarmed around their sweating faces, crawling into their ears and nostrils.

Culicoides scoticus (Ceratopogonidae): It is one of the most common biting midges found in fungi and been found in over 20 different fungus species.

Nor was the upland wildlife entirely innocuous: even if they managed to evade the bears, snow lions, and wolf packs, biting midges might well eat them alive.

Oregano oil has been tested as an insect repellent for Culicoides imicola, a disease-bearing species of insect commonly known as "no-see-ums" or biting midges.

Leather-hinged at the top and held open by a hook and eye fastened to the low ceiling, it was covered with a screen of black gauze to exclude biting midges.

Two forms, Bahig and Matruh viruses, were isolated from bird ticks including Hyalomma marginatum, but elsewhere mosquitoes and biting midges have been implicated as vectors.