The pest spawns flesh-eating larvae that could devastate the American beef industry, decimate wildlife and even kill ...

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The Maryland Department of Agriculture, in collaboration with the Department of Natural Resources, is set to treat a section ...

The U.S Department of Agriculture shut down animal imports through ports along the southern border due to a growing outbreak ...

The Baltimore County Department of Environmental Protection and Sustainability is expanding the area that is being treated ...

According to the department, Bti is a bacterium that naturally occurs in soils and targets midge, mosquito and black fly larvae. It is not harmful to people, fish, crabs or other aquatic ...

Much like the other gall, the female midge lays her eggs on young developing oak leaves shortly after the leaves emerge from the leaf buds and are just starting to flatten out. The larvae are tiny ...

Soybean gall midge larvae typically infest soybean plants at the V2 growth stage or later, when cracks begin to develop in soybean stems, providing an entry point for females to lay eggs.

“There’s millions of these midge fly larvae that grow out of our final clarifiers,” he said. He said they don’t bite, but they’re a big nuisance.

Midge eggs spend much of the summer, fall and winter developing in the sediment at the bottom of the lake. In the spring, they finally hatch as larvae and develop in the mud for several more weeks.

The larvae are a valuable food source for fish and other aquatic organisms in the water. And once above water, the adult midge flies can be food for birds, bats and other vertebrate.

While Michiganders dread the coming of mosquito and black fly seasons, midge and mayfly seasons are merely annoyances of spring — as the keepers of the White Shoal Lighthouse in Lake Michigan ...