Noun:

ஒரு வகை கொசுவின் பூச்சி,

midges's Usage Examples:

The dipterous gall-formers include the gall-midges, or gallgnats (Cecidomyidae), minute slender-bodied insects, with bodies usually covered with long hairs, and the wings folded over the back.

Comprises the midges, gnats, crane-flies, gad-flies, 'c.

In general appearance mosquitoes resemble many harmless midges (Chironomidae), but may be distinguished by the following characters.

27) and some dragon-flies and midges.

An ear of another type is found in the swollen second segment of the feeler in many male gnats and midges, the cuticle between this segment and the third forming an annular drum which is connected with numerous nerveendings, while the fine bristles on the more distal segments vibrate in response to the note produced by the humming of the female.

In some midges and in caddis-flies the serosa becomes ruptured and absorbed, while the germ band, still clothed with the amnion, grows around the yolk.

biting midges can turn a pleasant walk into an ordeal.

During the summer they remain on hilltops to avoid midges.

The Diptera Orthorrhapha include the more primitive and less specialized families such as the Tipulidae (daddy-long-legs), Culicidae (gnats or mosquitoes), Chironomidae (midges), Mycetophilidae (fungus-midges), Tabanidae (horse-flies), Asilidae (robber-flies), 'c.

The midges are even more numerous than the mosquitoes.

To the traveller, the most conspicuous among the Mexican insects, perhaps, are the butterflies, beetles, ants and the myriads of mosquitoes, midges, fleas and chinches.

Synonyms:

family Chironomidae, Chironomidae, gnat,

Antonyms:

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