Midge, please! Bug clouds spotted over Lake Erie
**See the midge invasion from last fall in the video above.
CLEVELAND (WJW) — You probably already noticed, but the midges are back in Northeast Ohio.
Hatching out of Lake Erie in late spring and also late summer/early fall, the little mosquito-looking bugs can be quite annoying but thankfully don’t bite people.
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It’s still early in this season of the midge game, with FOX 8 meteorologists not picking up the buggers on radar yet, but their eyes are peeled.
Meanwhile, one FOX 8 viewer sent in photos of clouds of midges Tuesday over NEORSD Easterly Wastewater Plant on the shore of Lake Erie in Bratenahl, as seen below:
Photo courtesy Cory Ponting Photo courtesy Cory Ponting Photo courtesy Cory Ponting Photo courtesy Cory Ponting
A midge’s lifespan is between five and seven days long. Residents near Lake Erie could be seeing them through late October, as long as water temperatures and air temperatures alike stay above winter-esque temps.
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Find out more about midges right here.
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