Noseeums, as someone else said, are near invisible. They leave rashes, suck blood, can transmit disease.
The ones here (there are countless species) leave rashes which take weeks to go away.
If you've ever been bit by a deer fly, it's the same thing, except these are super tiny. They literally use their jaws to slice a hole in your skin, and suck the blood up.
They also love to suck water and salt from your eyes, so they land, but often get stuck and die because of you blinking. Then you end up with all these dead insects in your eyes.
They love to fly in your ear, I imagine ear wax and the moistness attracts. They bite there too.
So now you have rashes inside your ear canal, and insect crawling in there.
In spring, they attack in droves. Hundreds or even thousands buzzing around your head.
If you stand outside my house, in the spring, just stand still and stare ahead, within minutes they appear, and you are soon sightless for the sheer number of dead in your eyes.
They need to be exterminated.
I love birds more than most, but if 1/2 the bird species die, I'm ok with that, as long as noseeums do too.
Noseeums, as someone else said, are near invisible. They leave rashes, suck blood, can transmit disease.
The ones here (there are countless species) leave rashes which take weeks to go away.
If you've ever been bit by a deer fly, it's the same thing, except these are super tiny. They literally use their jaws to slice a hole in your skin, and suck the blood up.
They also love to suck water and salt from your eyes, so they land, but often get stuck and die because of you blinking. Then you end up with all these dead insects in your eyes.
They love to fly in your ear, I imagine ear wax and the moistness attracts. They bite there too.
So now you have rashes inside your ear canal, and insect crawling in there.
In spring, they attack in droves. Hundreds or even thousands buzzing around your head.
If you stand outside my house, in the spring, just stand still and stare ahead, within minutes they appear, and you are soon sightless for the sheer number of dead in your eyes.
They need to be exterminated.
I love birds more than most, but if 1/2 the bird species die, I'm ok with that, as long as noseeums do too.