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Title: No-See-Ums
Post by: jkhanson on September 27, 2020, 11:06:34 am

This is year has been the worst for me getting bit by those little black bugs.....some call them No-See-Ums.

If I step outside the door, I get attacked!  We actually had a swarm of them by our back door.  My son used bug spray and thousands fell. 
Some, however, crawled through the cracks and are actually inside my house.  Luckily they have been just staying on the window, so I have been able to kill these guys too.

Title: Re: No-See-Ums
Post by: minioncookies on September 27, 2020, 11:57:47 pm

I feel for you I really do.  My own issue with bugs in general they keep biting me. Recently a spider bit me on the elbow and its been a nasty painful mess since. Thank god its almost over

Title: Re: No-See-Ums
Post by: ktheodos on September 28, 2020, 01:15:41 am

I had not heard of them until you just mentioned them.....will keep an eye out for them...it sounds like they are more common in coastal areas though...@Jkhanson are you in a coastal area?

Title: Re: No-See-Ums
Post by: alice44 on September 28, 2020, 12:04:57 pm

 Ohhh I feel for you.  They are such a nasty pest.  Hopefully you can get them out of your house! :confused1:

Title: Re: No-See-Ums
Post by: sfreeman8 on September 28, 2020, 01:21:05 pm

We are fighting thousands of ground hornets and their nests (, wasps, and the usual hornets. Found out the spotted lantern flies (which we have thousands of them too) leave a sweet sticky substance on the trees they "eat" which in turn, draws the hornets and wasps to the area. My husband spent 2 days killing ground hornet nests and the spotted lantern flies that settled on the poor Tree of Heaven.  All our trees are favorites of this insect and what ones aren't are being killed by the Emerald Ash Borer.  I'm so upset over them destroying all the woods around us.  >:(