Despite their mosquito-ish appearance, midges, also known by the nicknames mucklehead or mufflehead, don’t bite.
, researchers report that in high emergence years the insects’ dead carcasses can contribute 55 metric tons of dry biomass to the soil. And while humans might get grossed out inhaling a mouthful of them during a lakefront jog or bike ride, midges are the perfect meal for all the birds migrating through the city.
But midges are just one of the water-loving insects that hatch in the Great Lakes region every spring. They’re often confused with mayflies, which are significantly larger.rising up over Lake Erie counted nearly 90 billion of them. In a single night. Fish and other freshwater wildlife will gorge on the buffet.These adult mayflies live to mate — lacking mouths and digestive systems, they don’t even eat — and die within days.
Though it’s been decades since Chicago’s witnessed an explosion of mayflies, up until the late 1930s, dead mayflies were known to pile up several inches deep on DuSable Lake Shore Drive,But plenty of towns, including along the upper Mississippi and lakeside communities in Ohio, still deal with annual mayfly swarms and subsequent die-offs,
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