Right now our neighbourhood is being visited by squillions of little black flies. I think they’re aquatic, because the closer you go to the water the more there are. My guess is they are some kind of true fly, what fly fishermen would call a midge. They come every year but this year the quantities of them are just silly. It’s a challenge to avoid breathing them in or ingesting them. This morning it was no big deal because the swarms of insects were high, well above my head. This evening they started at the ground in swarms that stretched to the sky. Fortunately, they don’t bite, so they’re a minor irritant. As a plus, there are a lot of birds out there making a living off those bugs.