In reply to CurlyStevo:
I can't comment on the midges in the Peak, but here in Gairloch they are well down compared to the average year. I think this is due to two, related, phenomena.
1. It is very dry, I mean really very dry. In the last 15 or so years I have only seen it close to this dry once before. Most of the areas that would, in a normal year, still be boggy now are dry, so breeding ground have been reduced substantially, and
2. It is very sunny, which links to the dryness. If it is very dry in NW Scotland then it has been very sunny and midges do not like bright light.
Clegs, however are, in the words of Ian Dury, doing very well.
Dave