They are native to Iceland, particularly in the north where a lake is named after them - Lake Mývatn, or Midge Lake. They've been called " as Icelandic as the puffins" , external .

Swarms of midges rise out of a lake in northern Iceland in such enormous numbers every spring and summer that they can impair breathing and darken the sky, giving the lake its name—Myvatn, or ...

The midges that periodically swarm by the billions from Iceland's Lake Myvatn are a force of nature. At their peak, it is difficult to breathe without inhaling the bugs, which hatch and emerge ...

Midge Madness in Iceland Special | 54m 41s | Video has closed captioning. Claudio Gratton, Associate Professor, Department of Entomology, UW-Madison introduces midges and discusses their cyclic ...

06/08/2018 June 8, 2018. Every summer, a lake in the north of Iceland becomes the scene of an amazing - and many would say - irritating natural phenomenon: huge swarms of midges fill the air.

The appearance of the biting midge in parts of Iceland where the insect is uncommon has irritated holiday makers, highlighted an environmentalist concern, external, and inspired a song. One man ...