mrssanta wrote:Theory is they are going to be bad this year due to warm winter and early spring.
Theory a couple of years ago was that the unusually cold winter would have killed a lot of them off. Instead they descended in greater numbers than ever, because what was really killed off was most of their predators (birds etc.), allowing them to multiply in greater numbers.
So maybe the warm winter will mean fewer midges (due to more birds around), not more?