Biting midges

Jonathan Day, left, and Roxanne Rutledge, entomologists with the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, hold vials containing biting midges at UF’s Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory in Vero Beach — Thursday, Sept. 29, 2005. The tiny, blood-sucking flies plague Florida’s coastline in October and November but should be less common this year, thanks to summer rains that flooded low-lying coastal areas where the pests breed, Day said.

(AP photo/University of Florida/IFAS/Marisol Amador)
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