midge

Converse of object

• bite: There are 34 known species of biting midges in Scotland only 5 of these species attack humans.
• catch: The bags are used for catching midges once they have been sucked into the machine.
• keep: They do tend to be windy, which in defense does keep the midges down.
• avoid: During the summer they remain on hilltops to avoid midges.

Preposition: at

• bay: The one bit of his brain still working remembered that the one thing to keep midges at bay is chili.

Converse of subject

• eat: Knackered if you kept going, but eaten by the midges if you stopped.

Adjective modifier

• biting: Clouds of biting midges can turn a pleasant walk into an ordeal.
• dreaded: Only downside of this lazy warm summer paddling is the dreaded midge.
• Scottish: These little insects are comparable in the desire for human flesh to Scottish midges.
• female: Only the female midges bite to feed their eggs.
• few: Once in the forest we looked for a good place to camp and pitched our tent, there were quite a few midges around.
• black: He was busily sucking down some small black midge which had become trapped in a calm slick at the edge of the loch.

Modifies a noun

• larva: The midge larva makes a tunnel in the mud by sticking grains of mud together.
• bite: I found a convenient rise with a suitable flat patch to pitch my tent and endured a lot of midge bites.
• trap: The Mosquito Magnet Liberty Plus is suitable for medium domestic use, see the individual midge trap products for more details.
• net: The midge head net - this is what we're on about.
• population: The only minor drawback is the presence of the biggest midge population in southern scotland.
• season: Around two-thirds also said they would not return during the height of the midge season.

Noun used with modifier

• gall: The main problem is fireblight, but caterpillars, aphids, gall midges, honey fungus, rust and powdery mildew may give problems.
• adult: In the lower images two views of the adult midge.