While horse flies are large flies, noseeums (sandfleas) and some Old-World sandflies are tiny midges.

The flies became a torment: particularly the clouds of tiny midges that crept up their sleeves and breeches and under their hair.

The red - hot needle jabs of sandflies showed that Curacao was not free from the tiny midges which elsewhere the seamen called 'no - see - 'ems'.

Added to this were the flies and clouds of tiny midges that drifted among the foliage like smoke: vision was limited and hallucinatory.

This, in Vyann's view at least, was all to the good; the tangles, she found, were not romantic; merely drab, irritating, and full of tiny black midges.

His abrupt arrival stirred scores of tiny midges into spiraling flight from the golden-brown grass, which appeared crisp from months of summer heat.

Every month has been the wettest for the year; and in summer rise swarms of tiny stinging midges to torment exposed flesh.

A few tiny midges - No. 22, 24 or smaller, and in light and dark shades - should be among one's flies.

When I opened the car windows for air, tiny midges swarmed in and attacked my face and arms.

They looked like tiny white midges next to the pitted dark bulk of the huge rock.