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Little black flies on my garden and all over my skin

Susan1359Susan1359 Posts: 23
edited June 2018 in Problem solving
Please could anyone identify these flies? I have never came across with them before. But since the temperature fell these days , every time I sat in my patio , there are lots of these tiny flies sit on my skin and when I come inside the house I notice that they are all over my body crawling :'(:s

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  • Kitty 2Kitty 2 Posts: 5,150
    Can't see more than black dots in that photo.

    Have you had any itchy bites?  Saying they land on your skin makes me think mosquito maybe?
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    There's all sorts of little black flies around at the moment ... it's the warm weather and the pollen ... they're not harmful, just part of nature .... we couldn't identify yours without a close up photo I'm afraid.  

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • granmagranma Posts: 1,933
    They look like  corn fly, do you live in the country? We are surrounded by fields .when it is harvest time they are just as you describe. .if your in a town though I'm stumped....maybe some one else on here has the same problem.
  • Susan1359Susan1359 Posts: 23
    Thank you all for your replies - Because they are tiny it was difficult to take a close up picture- No itchy bites but it's just uncomfortable every time I come back from the garden to the house, I find them all over my body. Yes , my garden is overlooking a little woodland and surrended by trees, may be that's why .
  • TopbirdTopbird Posts: 8,355
    Lots of pollen beetles here - all over the washing in fact :# - but they do no harm and probably some good.

    We have a problem with thrips when they start harvesting cereal crops in the surrounding fields - but it's a bit early for them. They drive you mad crawling over your skin, in your hair, itching away. And they're small enough to get inside picture frames. We even have a couple inside the TV screen   :/
    Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Topbird said:
    Lots of pollen beetles here - all over the washing in fact :# - but they do no harm and probably some good.

    We have a problem with thrips when they start harvesting cereal crops in the surrounding fields - but it's a bit early for them. They drive you mad crawling over your skin, in your hair, itching away. And they're small enough to get inside picture frames. We even have a couple inside the TV screen   :/
    Oh don't!   When I did printmaking I used to mount and frame my own work ... one harvest time I'd framed a load only to find the little black thunder bugs had found a way in Grrrrr!

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Avon Skin So Soft Original will stop things landing on you, 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    It works with mozis for sure. But having used it last weekend at Sissinghurst and Dixter I can say, without doubt, it does not work on horseflies or other nasty biting flies. I am covered in huge, red welts, though I was covered in So Soft. They don't itch (thank God) but take a month or so to go down. image
  • Dave HumbyDave Humby Posts: 1,145
    Fire said:
    It works with mozis for sure. But having used it last weekend at Sissinghurst and Dixter I can say, without doubt, it does not work on horseflies or other nasty biting flies. I am covered in huge, red welts, though I was covered in So Soft. They don't itch (thank God) but take a month or so to go down. image
    As an avid angler for many years there has been a lot of debate on this within that community and the conclusion was that So Soft changed formulation at some point and is no longer as effective as it once was. 
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    I can't imagine it doing much good for the SAS is it doesn't work against horseflies. I was wondering if Avon even know what the active repellent ingredient is/was. If so they would be truly on to a vein of gold. It seems daft to dial down the oil to make it less effective. Maybe nobody ever knew the secret....
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