midge
midge 英 [mɪdʒ] 美 [mɪdʒ]
n. 蚊，蠓等小虫
名词复数:midges
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- n. 蚊，蠓等小虫
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1. A midge gathers pollen from a cacao flower by sticking its head inside a “petal pouch” that contains both pollen and a sticky nectar reward.
一只摇蚊正在一朵可可花上收集花粉，它将头部刺入盛满花粉和粘稠花蜜的“花瓣口袋”中。
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2. Bats eat a midge called Culicoides, which carries bluetongue, a devastating livestock disease that is moving northwards in Europe as a result of climate change.
一种叫库蠓的昆虫会在牲畜间传播一种名为蓝舌病的致命恶疾，随着气候的变化，蓝舌病正在向欧洲北部蔓延，而蝙蝠则正好以库蠓为食。
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3. Intriguingly, whole communities often live inside these pitchers without falling into the saliva, such as mosquitoes and midge larvae that feed on debris and speed up breakdown of prey.
让人好奇的是，有些昆虫可以生活在瓶状体的内部，而不掉入粘液中，例如蚊子和其幼虫可以靠残骸为食，加速猎物的瓦解。
- midge (n.) Old English mygg, mycg "gnat," from Proto-Germanic *mugjon (source also of Swedish mygga, Old Saxon muggia, Middle Dutch mugghe, Dutch mug, Old High German mucka, German Mücke "midge, gnat"). No certain cognates beyond Germanic, unless doubtful Armenian mun "gnat" and Albanian mize "gnat" are counted. But Watkins, Klein and others suggest an imitative root used for various humming insects and a relationship to Latin musca (see mosquito). Meaning "diminutive person" is from 1796.
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