Buzzers?

[Ron Clay]

One point I have never been able to fathom is why UK anglers call the pupa of the chronomid (midge) a "buzzer"?

I have held my ears as close as possible to these things and never heard them buzz yet!!

Why don't UK anglers call them what they are, ie midge pupae?

 

[Fergal Scully]

Hi Ron, one evening while fishing on lough Owel in Ireland during a huge hatch of green midge I could hear a really loud buzz in the air. I said to my self every time a midge hit me in tha ear now I know why they're called buzzers. So as far as I know the adult is called a buzzer and the pupa is "buzzer pupa" shortened through common use to just buzzer.

 

[Alan Roe]

Probably because they are from the same genetic stock Delkimus Warbelus....!

 

[Rob Jones]

Hi Ron, I'd agree with Fergal - it's not the noise a single insect makes, but a swarm of 'em! Though maybe 'hummers' would be a more phonetically apt name.