OttoSchloss
Active Member
Mine have been gone for about a week now. And yeah, I do have 2 very large spiders that live on my terrace.
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I think a lot of midge complaints come from high-rise dwellers because the buildings generally radiate out heat from windows at night, which is helpful for the Midges to survive in the early spring without freezing, and also perhaps keeps many more of them away from spiders, thoguh the spiders seemed to have figured out this trick and are quite happy living 40 stories up, perhaps because it shelters them from being eaten by birds.I wonder how far back complaints about midges in Toronto have gone for?
Surely this phenomenon would have been present right up to Toronto's founding? Or is it more of a cultural shift (people more accustomed to comfort) + shifting baseline syndrome as biodiversity has shifted, leaving only the midges behind?