{"id":1689,"date":"2008-03-07T09:39:47","date_gmt":"2008-03-07T09:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/03\/07\/midges-explained-but-will-this\/"},"modified":"2008-03-07T09:39:47","modified_gmt":"2008-03-07T09:39:47","slug":"midges-explained-but-will-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/07\/midges-explained-but-will-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Midges explained.  But will this make them go away?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Midges, baseball fans recall, are the gnat-like insects that rose from Lake Erie last October and descended upon Chamberlain in the bottom of the eighth inning of a playoff game against the Cleveland Indians, distracting him into throwing two wild pitches. Cleveland scored the tying run without a hit. The Yankees eventually lost the game and eventually the series.During mating season, the air at Lake Myvatn can also be thick with male midges, each hovering, waiting for a female to join him. &#8220;It&#8217;s a like a fog, a brown dense fog that just rises around the lake,&#8221; said Anthony R. Ives, a professor of zoology at the University of Wisconsin.Yet at the same time in other years, hardly a midge was to be seen at the lake. This boom-and-bust cycle &#8212; the density of midges can rise or fall by a factor of a million within a few years &#8212; drew the interest of ecologists like Dr. Ives.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/03\/07\/science\/07midgew.html?ex=1362546000&#038;en=2fbae1d6f3df3c31&#038;ei=5088&#038;partner=rssnyt&#038;emc=rss\">From the New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Midges, baseball fans recall, are the gnat-like insects that rose from Lake Erie last October and descended upon Chamberlain in the bottom of the eighth inning of a playoff game against the Cleveland Indians, distracting him into throwing two wild pitches. Cleveland scored the tying run without a hit. The Yankees eventually lost the game &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/07\/midges-explained-but-will-this\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Midges explained.  But will this make them go away?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-rf","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}