what are they?

all over my arms and even on ceiling in the house...loads of them!

Corn flies and they are a nightmare.

I have one now crawling up my monitor from the inside

The good news is that they only last while the farmers are harvesting.

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Wondered what they were. Two weeks ago I opened my windows here in the posh part of Salford and since then they have been dryiing me nuts.They will not leave my glass of red wine alone. I must have swatted over 20 of them but they keep coming back.

Homing flies.

If you are swatting them then they are not corn flies.

well they are black and tiny and i normally swat em with my incredibaly quick hands as anyone who will be at tomorrow nights poker night will eventually notice.

Are they the size of fleas? We live near quite a few corn fields so i hope its them!

Theres me thinking our kids bird was flea infested

They are very small.

Nearly certainly come from the corn fields

Do they not call these irritatng little things "thunder bugs" ?

I live surrounded by corn fields out in Winwick and the little beggars drive me barmy!!! They seem to love crawling up those hairs on the back of your neck just enough to irritate and has already been pointed out they get everywhere and somehow behind any pictures' pane of glass!!

Odd thing is they seem to all disappear around 7ish .... not sure if the temp drop causes them to go wherever but I can have hundreds crawling on the wall and 10 mins later none!! Very Strange!!

Think they should be stalked like they seemingly stalk me!!

i was running a few weeks ago, and once i had finished i was covered in hundreds of black dots, but they were stuck to me obviously cause i'd been sweating, not very nice

thats rather rude frank