Whinchat (Saxicola rubetra).

Sevastopol, Crimea, RF.

Луговой чекан.

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47773 T&T with 20189 passing Midge Hill with the return Vintage Trains private charter. 1Z43 14.34 York - Manchester Piccadilly. Thanks to the landowner for his kind permission. Saturday 14 May 2022. Pole Shot.

Grey Midge (family Chironomidae)

Sheltering amongst the Jade Flowers today.

Happy Wing Wednesday!

it's a male, green but more cyan species

The Scottish midges really made me suffer here.

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(Matthew 16:21)

Not many could predict the location and manner of their own death. Only the Son of God could go on to predict that he would rise from the dead three days later!

Oak Creek Canyon

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Wee little fellow. I love their feathered antennae. Its placement on the fern should give you a context of its size.

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HIHD

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Larva : biting midges

with secreted sticky droplets

College Park, MD

My friend Joanne's cat.

If you look in the last photo you will see this old longship left by the Vikings many years ago.. :-)

Final image from the Classic Bike Show at Heage Windmill … not a bike but interesting nonetheless

Something different. The ground is still very wet in places and today has been the first really brilliant day of sunshine (and maybe some heat in places) So the result is midge heaven! It was heaving with them! But such a glorious evening to be out!

1/13th of a second and 25 wingbeats equals 325 beats per second.

A quick last post before I shoot off to Scotland for a week or so.

Here's another of That Tree at Llanberis, and if you look closely I managed to catch a small flight of midges hovering around it's upper branches.

I did like the delicate high cloud, but it soon burned away to give a cloudless sky - something of a rarity in Snowdonia.

BugGuide identified this as a non-biting Midge. I hadn't seen one before but that's just me ;) I find it quite interesting that it has interesting mouth-parts, like two little arms with which I believe it uses to hold it's food while it eats it. It also has these very interesting and quite fuzzy antenna. Cute for a bug - in my opinion and ever better when it's a bug that doesn't bite me!

Taken 29 May 2023 in my yard near Wasilla, Alaska.

Non Biting Midge (family Chironomidae)

It had been running around on this leaf of the Mirror bush, thankfully it decided to rest for a few moments.

This is the smaller waterfall above the main Harthope Linn waterfall taken on a sunny June day. The burn runs through trees around the waterfall which cast shadows over most of it with just small areas highlighted where the sun could penetrate.

Within seconds of setting up I was getting bitten by midges - the shade was a haven for them. I didn't stay long....

On our bank holiday visit to Meldon Reservoir we followed the lake until we reached a nice little valley which was formed by that little stream I photographed here. We spend some time taking in the idyllic atmosphere - the boys were enjoying throwing pebbles into the water and I took a few photos while discovering that midges are obviously not limited to parts of Scotland!

A male, non-biting midge.

Very tiny (almost) all-black male midge with wild antennae

Mitutoyo 20x NA 0.42, tube lens: Raynox (125mm)

Illumination: diffuse oblique

This Yellow headed blackbird is surrounded by an insect swarm of midges. They look a lot like mosquitos, but fortunately are non-biting.

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Male Marsh Harrier (and Midges) back lit in the early morning sun. If this was black and white I could have probably pretended it was a snow storm.

Taken in Norfolk.

Objective: Mitutoyo 5x NA 0.14

Tunbe lens: Raynox 125mm

Illumination: Oblique and dark field / polarization

HFDF!

Probably a Chironomous midge (non-biting). Perhaps a plumulosus (note the plume-like antennae).

Male chironomid midges in a huge swarm, backlit by the sun, dancing two hours before sunset. Just one of many social events found daily at the San Luis National Wildlife Refuge.

Diamesinae

1:1 macro of a very small animal.

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