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Midges Meet Magnetic Doom
By Jon on 13/05/2002 14:29:00
Midge Magnet is death in a cylinder for the wee, biting Scottish horrors. Bring it on, we say.
Looks like it could be the beginning of the end for those nasty,blood-sucking horrors north of the border as Scottish scientistsbegin tests on an awesome midge-killing device.The 'Midge Magnet' is claimed to be capable of clearing an areathe size
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Midges Make The News
By Jon on 29/06/2009 12:55:10
Scottish paper highights the midge bite misery and its possible solutions.
Midges and tickshit the pages of TheHerald today with an in-depth article giving the low downon the little blighters' threat to domestic holidaymakers includingwalkers and climbers.Midges, ittranspires, come in 37 different Scottish varieties
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Splatometer To Uncover Scottish Midge 'Myth'...
By Jon on 27/05/2004 11:06:42
An RSPB project will measure the numbers of midges hanging out in the highlands. Rather quaintly, they seem to think the area's reputation may be a 'myth'. Yeah, right...
Top news from Scotland where drivers are being asked to fit theircars with a 'splatometer' in order to assess the prevalence of thedreaded Scottish midge.Ironically, given the fearsome reputation of the wee bitinghorrors, the programme is being
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Midge Forecast Now An iPhone App
By Jon Doran on 18/06/2010 09:19:20
The Scottish Midge Forecast is now available as a free iPhone app.
A rapid heads-up for Scottish midge haters who have iPhones, with the news that there's now an app for that available from the app store.The Midge Forecast is pretty much what it says on the can being a daily and seven-day midge forecast
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Visiting Scotland? Check The Midge Forecast First
By Susan on 30/05/2006 16:18:41
A new Scottish midge forecast was launched on Monday, courtesy of research at the University of Edinburgh, so you can check out the itch-factor before you head for the Highlands...
Walter the Weather Girl has another set of data to add to her Friday weather reports, after the world's first ever midge forecasting system was launched on Monday. The forecasts cover the whole of Scotland, and let walkers know whether to expect
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Bring On The Midges!
By Jon on 06/04/2011 17:28:50
We're armed and ready with three different insect repellents...
I'm sitting here scratching my head. Not, for once, because I've been midged, but for a change because I haven't and can't see any prospect of it happening for the next few weeks.Normally that would make me unconditionally happy - I hate
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Here Comes The Super Midge
By Jon on 07/08/2000 18:07:00
Scottish scientists predict the advent of a longer-lived, friskier midge, eek...
Grim news from Edinburgh University which is predicting, gawd helpall climbers and walkers, the development of the super midge inScotland. Apparently global warming means the little buggers willlive longer and, even worse, will be able to breed
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Scotland To Sink Into Sea Under Weight Of Midges
By Jon on 07/03/2011 12:44:56
Buy a very large flame-thrower now before they carry you off to their mountain fastness and eat ya.
There is ying and there is yang. Seems that Scotland is going to pay for its winter snow cover this summer with an explosion of midges wot The Sun reckons will be '800 times worse than normal'.Apparently the long-lasting early season snow has
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Midges Munch More On Tall Overweight People...
By Jon Doran on 28/07/2010 17:37:17
Research shows that tall folk and overweight women attract midgies, but 15% of people repel them naturally.
Just in case you missed it, the mainstream media is buzzing with the news that midges – the nasty little blighters – like tall men and large women, while some 15 per-cent of people produce natural insect repellent and are rarely bitten
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Man-sized Midge Sparks Tourist Board Bust-Up
By Jon on 30/07/2004 11:34:18
A biting campaign by eastern Scottish tourist bodies to lure visitors away from the midgey west coast has stung Highland tourist boards into verbal retaliation...
It's midge wars in Scotland where a niggly battle has developedbetween tourist boards in the east and west of the country thanks toa publicity stunt.A consortium of eastern Scottish tourist boards stung - sorry -their western rivals by unveiling a
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