Billions of Midges Freeze to Death

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midge
Billions of midges have frozen to death
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a small flying insect that can bite people Pol. komar
beastie
An expert on the biting beastie.
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Informal an insect
voracious
Tourists breakfasted upon by the voracious and swarming insects.
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having an extremely strong desire to do or have a lot of something
swarm
swarming insects.
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Pol. (of bees) roić się
hot spot
Sutherland is a midge hot spot
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a place that is popular for entertainment or a particular activity
demise
Public interest in the midge — and ultimately in its demise or avoidance — is high
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the end of something that used to exist, death formal
comprehensive
the big freeze is so comprehensive.
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complete and including everything that is necessary: complete
infest
wide areas of midge infested ground frozen
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if insects, rats etc ____ a place, there are a lot of them and they usually cause damage
resilient to sth
But midges are very resilient. They will sit there in the ground waiting days for their meal.”
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able to become strong, happy, or successful again after a difficult situation or event Pol. odporny
respite
a welcome respite in a war that humans seemingly cannot win.
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a short time when something bad stops happening, so that the situation is temporarily better
on record
the coming summer may be one of the best, midge quiet Scottish summers on record.
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a piece of information or a description of an event that is written on paper or stored on a computer: x2

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