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By adamg on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 8:59pm
People all across greater Boston tonight are finding themselves deluged by a sudden onslaught of swarms of little bugs.
Megan Lee tweets:
There are a million tiny flying bugs covering my back door & porch. This is a bad sign isn't it?
In Brookline, Stephen Walsh tweets:
They are all over the cars on my street. Look like tiny fleas.
McKenzie R. tweets from the Sox game at Fenway Park:
There are a million tiny bugs at Fenway tonight too - disgusting!
Jef Taylor, our resident expert on all things creepy and crawly, went through a similar swarm in Dedham, at first suggested:
It appears to be reproductive flights of ants. I don't like how they stick in sweat.
But a couple of hours later, he reported:
I took a picture of what was clearly a flying ant 2 hrs ago. Now lots of tiny moth like things + mosquitoes.
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at least they don't bite...
We sat outside at a restaurant in Roslindale tonight, and got dive-bombed by those critters throughout dinner. They were smacking right into the menus, the plates, our clothes, skin… very annoying, but after a while, we realized they weren't actually biting us, and were actually pretty harmless. They didn't look at all like the kind of bugs we typically get around here. They seemed more like sand fleas you'd see at the beach. Did the tropical storm sweep them in here somehow?
Bad night in Woburn too
I went to an outdoor concert on the north side of Horn Pond tonight. They had to cut the concert short around 8:30, as almost all the audience had fled from these bugs.
No Twitpic?
C'mon, how about some photodocumentation so we can figure out exactly what these wee beasties are?
A few days late, my pictures are up.
I posted two pictures of the bug swarm aftermath, the few dozen insects that settled into the kiddie pool in my yard. I recognize that most of them are ants, but there are a few other things too.
http://urbpan.livejournal.com/1273381.html
We were pestered by them
We were pestered by them after dinner in West Newton. I assumed they were gnats, but I've never seen them so thick like that.
maybe they the earthquake
maybe they the earthquake shook them up. Or they got an evacuation order.
Got pestered by them in West
Got pestered by them in West Newton too. I assumed they were gnats at first.
The ants . . .
. . . seem to do their flying reproductive routine in the spring- dozens stick to my windows in May and June. I was out tonight and I did notice some little flying critters while on the Greenway- but they were not flying ants.
I walked the abandoned I95 in
I walked the abandoned I95 in Revere the other day, I have over 20 bites per arm (seriously), a bunch on my neck (perhaps another 20), and somehow got some on my shoulder blades as well despite wearing a shirt. Not sure when all this started, but it was absolutely ridiculous... I've never had to deal with so many bugs...
But that's swampland
the Rumney Marsh. Isn't that always going to be full if insects?
It was insane though, I've
It was insane though, I've kayaked through there with no problem. But no matter where I walked, I was under attack. I was constantly flailing and swatting. And at any rate; I thought mosquitoes stick to fresh water? That's some pretty salty marshland.
I have three words for you
Salt water mosquitoes. Unfortunately, they're real.
Same deal driving home on Rte 9
They were swarming from Rte 9, Brookline, all the way to the Waban Starbucks. It was bizarre. Some looked liked baby ants, others like baby bees, and others like baby flies. You could see the packs of them ahead of you as you drove.
Maybe they got the insect version of
the French Toast Alert.
Alert Pat Robertson!
He already thinks the earthquake was a sign of divine displeasure. This seems so biblical that it would clinch it for Irene (which, ironically, comes from a Greek word meaning "peace"). Human sacrifices on the Common to begin at noon... ;-)
We had 'em
I noticed that we had them last night in Canton, covering just about any horizontal surface that I looked at. Today they're still there, but they all appear to be dead.