Céide Midge Míoltóg Chéide
This tiny insect can be experienced at Céide Fields on warm, calm, humid days in summer.
The female midge needs a blood meal to provide enough protein for all her eggs and if she can't get this she will have to use up some of her own flight muscle tissue.
Ceide Fields
Ballycastle
County Mayo
+353 (0) 96 43325
ceidefields@opw.ie
www.ceidefields.com
Sneak Peek
Some interesting items can be viewed here
- Granny in Bed
- Ancient Pine Tree
- Ballyglass House
- Belmullet Gneiss Rock
- Beard Lichen
- Bog Cotton
- Common Butterwort
- Ceide Cliffs
- Ceide Midge
- Dún Briste
- Eagle's Eye View
- Giant Irish Elk
- Heath Spotted-Orchid
- Ling Heather
- Matchstick Lichen
- Milkwort
- Neolithic Field Wall
- Plough and ploughmarks
- Pottery
- Probing
- Saddle Quern
- Sundew
- Tapestries
- The Enclosure
- The Ice Age
- The Quarry
- Turf Bank