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If a mosquito or a midge — a tiny fly – bites an infected critter and then goes for a blood meal from a human, the virus can take root.
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Maria Isabel Barros Guinle, NPR, 20 Nov. 2024
Scientists were surprised when another kind of midge then picked up the virus from sickened sheep and carried it all the way to Norway.
—Lois Parshley, Scientific American, 1 May 2018
The mating calls of male Panama cross-banded tree frogs are synchronized to confuse bats and midges.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
Climate change has worsened the spread of the virus, according to the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), as global warming impacts midge populations.
—Léa Pernelle, Fortune Europe, 21 Oct. 2024
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Maria Isabel Barros Guinle, NPR, 20 Nov. 2024
Scientists were surprised when another kind of midge then picked up the virus from sickened sheep and carried it all the way to Norway.
—Lois Parshley, Scientific American, 1 May 2018
The mating calls of male Panama cross-banded tree frogs are synchronized to confuse bats and midges.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
Climate change has worsened the spread of the virus, according to the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), as global warming impacts midge populations.
—Léa Pernelle, Fortune Europe, 21 Oct. 2024
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“Midge.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/midge. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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midge
noun
: any of numerous tiny dipteran flies (especially families Ceratopogonidae, Cecidomyiidae, and Chironomidae) many of which are capable of giving painful bites and some of which are vectors or intermediate hosts of parasites of humans and various other vertebrates see biting midge
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