A midge??

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ok i found a weird insect on wednesday and my dad sed he thout it was a midge if this is true someone who has seen one tell me what one looks like cause eveytime i touch it it raises its abdomen like in protection it looks like a wasp with no wings i live in Tennessee so if this is uncommon tell me

-- David Hill Nickname:The Skedar Slayer (Dahill2002@yahoo.com), April 26, 2002

Answers

David, go to this page and check out these forums. You might start with "flies" and go from there. http://www.insecthobbyist.com/forum/ These forums have experts in many kinds of insects and arachnids so they should be able to help. If you learn to type a request into your search engine or go to another like "Google" and type in a topic, you will bring up these pages yourself and learn some fascinating things and find some really cool websites. Have fun LQ

-- Little Quacker (carouselxing@juno.com), April 26, 2002.

I saw this on another post and it mentioned "midges".

the hair loss is probably not from lice. Donkeys suffer alergies. Mine is alergic to midges. A small fly(knat) that swarms in the spring. The bites itch and the donkeys rub and chew the hair off. They are very miserable with this. If yours have this problem get some anti itch ointment from your vet or feed store. also doctor the bites to prevent infection. The midges bite most at dusk. if you have a shelter to put them in at that time of day it will help. Thank goodness it only lasts a few weeks. They can get so bad it looks like mange. As for the ticks, Iwish I knew the answer to that myself. I live in the Ozarks and the ticks didn't freeze out this year. We have had them all winter. I just pick them off.

-- corky wolf (corkywolf@hotmail.com), April 26, 2002.

-- Cindy (ilovecajun@aol.com), April 26, 2002.


These midges have wings!

Midges

-- ~Rogo (rogo2222@hotmail.com), April 27, 2002.

I dont own a donkey i found this thing under a rock it looks like a hornet with no wings and if you touch it it raises its abdomen up and starts walking around and when i tried to catch it before thet it tried to burrow it got pretty far but i dug it up its black its abdomen is black with yellow stripes uder the creases you can only see the yellow when it raises its abdomen up.

-- David hill (dahill2002@yahoo.com), April 27, 2002.

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