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Woman shaking midge flies from her hair on the summit of a mountain called Beinn Eibhinn, in the Highlands of Scotland. It's pronounced like 'Ben', the name, and 'eon', as in a very long time period.

Photomicrograph of bloodworm, a midge fly larva, Chironomidae family. Red color is from hemoglobin, the same as in human blood. Live specimen. Wet mount, 2.5X objective, transmitted brightfield illumination.

Dipterous insects (Diptera): Wheat midge, or gall midge (Cecidomyia tritici, or Cecidomyiidae) with larva in an open pupa husk (a) and a wheat bloom with larva (b); Blue bottle fly (Musca vomitora, or Calliphora vomitoria); Black fly (Simulia colombaschenis, or Simuliidae); Hoverfly (Syrphus selenticus, or Syrphus ribesii) with larva and pupa; Clubbed general (Stratiomys chameleon); Dark-winged fungus gnats (Sciara Thomae, or Sciaridae); Mosquito (Culex annulatus, or Culiseta annulata); Horse botfly (Gastrophilus equi, or Gasterophilus intestinalis); Pest fly, or Gout fly (Chlorops taeniopus, or Chlorops pumilionis) with side view of the head (a); Sheep Bot Fly (Oestrus ovis); Human flea (Pulex irritans) with upper lip (a), maxillary (b), bottom lip (c), bottom lip tentacle (d), maxillary tentacle (e); Pale giant horse-fly (Tabanus bovinus) with side view of the head (a). Woodcut engraving, published in 1878.

Cecidomyiidae is a family of flies known as gall midges or gall gnats. As the name implies, the larvae of most gall midges feed within plant tissue, creating abnormal plant growths called galls. Cecidomyiidae are very fragile small insects usually only 2–3 mm (0.079–0.118 in) in length; many are less than 1 mm (0.039 in) long. They are characterised by hairy wings, unusual in the order Diptera, and have long antennae. Some Cecidomyiids are also known for the strange phenomenon of paedogenesis in which the larval stage reproduces without maturing first.[4][5] In some species, the daughter larvae consume the mother, while in others, reproduction occurs later on in the egg or pupa

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