[Qiviut]

We got Japanese beetles (old house), but we also would get a June Bug hatch now & again, usually after a rain. It was hilarious watching the local crow family in the field, hopping after the June Bugs.

I have been wearing a bug head net frequently the last couple of weeks. There’s the occasional mosquito, but the gnats have been terrible. I think they are hatching out of our landscape mulch. Yesterday, I had trouble with some biting flies while mowing - look like house flies, but they definitely bite. The poor cows are just bedeviled with all manner of biting insects. There are birds (a flock, actually) that fly around the cows, catching insects, but it doesn’t seem to help at all.

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

I understand the bug netting. Black flies and Deer flies and other biting insects, really hate them. They ruin summer living in places like Michigan or Northern Wisconsin or even Virginia. Good luck!

I think its a wet year which is good for insects. They have mosquito dunks that have BT that releases and kills the mosquitos in rain barrels and ponds and garden pools. (Bet Jungs would sell them!) There are treatments and traps for barn flies, but thats up to the farmer. I use mosquito bits in house plant pots to kill the fungus gnats.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Walmart was sold out of the mosquito head netting, so I'm obviously not the only 'local' with a problem this season.

Found this on Amaz0n, will have it in a few days. So cute! Now the mosquitoes and all the other bugs will be flocking around me because I'm so stinkin' adorable, LOL!

[FrozenAssets]

I can’t decide which I dislike most, the mosquitoes in the summer or the gnats in the fall.