Billions of midges freeze to death

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a small flying insect that can bite people
Pol. komar
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midge
Billions of midges have frozen to death
Informal an insect
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beastie
An expert on the biting beastie.
having an extremely strong desire to do or have a lot of something
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voracious
Tourists breakfasted upon by the voracious and swarming insects.
Pol. (of bees)
roić się
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swarm
swarming insects.
a place that is popular for entertainment or a particular activity
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hot spot
Sutherland is a midge hot spot
the end of something that used to exist, death
formal
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demise
Public interest in the midge — and ultimately in its demise or avoidance — is high
complete and including everything that is necessary:
complete
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comprehensive
the big freeze is so comprehensive.
if insects, rats etc ____ a place, there are a lot of them and they usually cause damage
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infest
wide areas of midge infested ground frozen
able to become strong, happy, or successful again after a difficult situation or event
x3
Pol. odporny
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resilient to sth
x 3
But midges are very resilient. They will sit there in the ground waiting days for their meal.”
a short time when something bad stops happening, so that the situation is temporarily better
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respite
a welcome respite in a war that humans seemingly cannot win.
a piece of information or a description of an event that is written on paper or stored on a computer:
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on record
the best, midge quiet summer known about).
the coming summer may be one of the best, midge quiet Scottish summers on record.

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