If you are a first time visitor don't think midges won't bother you - they soon will. Scotland provides the perfect habitat for the midge. Midges thrive in bogs, wet grassland and on miles and miles of rotting seaweed left high and dry by the March tides. Although the midge season runs from May until September, midges are at their most ferocious during July and August. A wet spring provides perfect breeding conditions for midges.
Midges start life as an egg that hatches as a larva.
It then becomes a pupa and finally a fly. The egg and pupa stage last just a few days. The larva stage lasts around ten months. It is crucial that the larva and the pupa remain moist. If the larva or pupa dry out the midge won't develop.