Complete midge management at the carrick golf course
We were tasked with designing a full midge management system for a £50m development that became The Carrick golf course and Cameron House Hotel, Loch Lomond. APSEC were asked to help from the beginning of the project. We carried out an ecological survey, allowing us to design a “midge risk” map. Here, we trapped over 1.75 million midges during a sinle midge season, allowing us to provide recommendations for the following year.
APSEC managed the traps, including maintenance, data collection and reporting, with a significant decrease in the midge population being recorded over the season.
Midge Forecast
We were also able to prepare a bespoke midge forecast for The Carrick golf course. This involved analysing midge and weather data collected on site during previous seasons, combined with APSEC’s algorithms relating midge activity to both weather patterns and the midge population dynamics. This allowed us the golf course and associated Cameron House Hotel to provide its guests with daily information on likely midge activity.
property survey and midge management
A private estate in Ross-shire was experiencing a biting midge problem around the residential property on the estate, which totalled 7,000 acres in size. An ecological survey, including extracting midge larvae from breeding sites was carried out by APSEC, allowing the identification of primary and secondary breeding sites. A proposal was derived based on both cultural and management strategies to tackle the midge problem. This included habitat management to reduce midge breeding grounds in the immediate vicinity of the property, as well as the strategic deployment of several midge traps.
