Re: OT - Tiny Black flies : Tue Jul 20, 2010 8:19 am  

They are very small.

Nearly certainly come from the corn fields

Re: OT - Tiny Black flies : Tue Jul 20, 2010 8:29 am  

Do they not call these irritatng little things "thunder bugs" ?

Re: OT - Tiny Black flies : Tue Jul 20, 2010 10:18 am  

I live surrounded by corn fields out in Winwick and the little beggars drive me barmy!!! They seem to love crawling up those hairs on the back of your neck just enough to irritate and has already been pointed out they get everywhere and somehow behind any pictures' pane of glass!!

Odd thing is they seem to all disappear around 7ish .... not sure if the temp drop causes them to go wherever but I can have hundreds crawling on the wall and 10 mins later none!! Very Strange!!

Think they should be stalked like they seemingly stalk me!!

Re: OT - Tiny Black flies : Tue Jul 20, 2010 10:49 am  

i was running a few weeks ago, and once i had finished i was covered in hundreds of black dots, but they were stuck to me obviously cause i'd been sweating, not very nice

Re: OT - Tiny Black flies : Tue Jul 20, 2010 12:00 pm  

frankb wrote:

Wondered what they were. Two weeks ago I opened my windows here in the posh part of Salford and since then they have been dryiing me nuts.They will not leave my glass of red wine alone. I must have swatted over 20 of them but they keep coming back.

thats rather rude frank

Re: OT - Tiny Black flies : Tue Jul 20, 2010 1:55 pm  

vikingsfan wrote:

i was running a few weeks ago, and once i had finished i was covered in hundreds of black dots, but they were stuck to me obviously cause i'd been sweating, not very nice

so what your saying is,you looked like the front of a car after a long summers drive up the M6.

Re: OT - Tiny Black flies : Tue Jul 20, 2010 8:24 pm  

frankb wrote:

Wondered what they were. Two weeks ago I opened my windows here in the posh part of Salford and since then they have been dryiing me nuts.They will not leave my glass of red wine alone. I must have swatted over 20 of them but they keep coming back.

How long have you been able to have windows in Salford - or are they still the '3 ply' wooden variety