Ok, I just discovered a weird scene here in Cary that I have never seen before. A window is open, there is a slight breeze flowing into the house, and the window sill is covered in tiny red bugs. They are smaller than flees and take turns flying in a big circle in front of the window before landing back down on the white window sill. They do not move very fast when they are moving and do not respond to me, so I had no trouble killing many of them.

What the hell are they and do they eat people?

10/9/2008 4:57:01 PM

You should probably get a lighter and some WD-40 just in case.

10/9/2008 4:58:52 PM

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"flees"

10/9/2008 5:25:14 PM

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"do they eat people?"

10/9/2008 5:26:55 PM

clover mites

10/9/2008 7:49:33 PM

clover mites dont fly and they come out beginnin of spring


granted i could be mistaken, but i love to sit on the curb and paint it red with their bodies

[Edited on October 9, 2008 at 8:42 PM. Reason : nvm i just read they come out in late autumn too lol]

10/9/2008 8:40:50 PM

this thread is worthless without pics (or video)

10/9/2008 8:42:41 PM

Velvet Mites?
http://bugguide.net/node/view/2419

10/10/2008 3:27:39 AM

It's chiggers damnit. And yes, they will eat you.




EDIT: Actually chiggers don't fly, nor do any mites? Probably a mass of chiggers being eaten/attacked by some thrips or something similar, which won't eat you, but will bite you.

[Edited on October 10, 2008 at 7:59 AM. Reason : ]

10/10/2008 7:54:23 AM

chigger, please

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvest_mite

10/10/2008 8:26:50 AM

i know what you're talking about. i don't know what they are, but i've seen them before

10/10/2008 8:31:39 AM

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"this thread is worthless without pics (or video)"

I agree. But they were so small and the only working camera I have is on my cell phone, you would not have seen anything.

The bodies were puny and the legs were so small that I could not see them at all.

10/10/2008 10:38:24 AM

Fruit fly?

10/10/2008 11:10:52 AM

There were no visible wings. I think the flying portion was mostly drift based.

10/10/2008 11:49:44 AM

probably some kind of mites then


they disseminate the same way lil spiderlings do, parachuting with a piece of silk

10/10/2008 4:40:01 PM

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"probably some kind of mites then"

You mean, like what I said before? Before you called me out for being wrong?

Clover mites, I'm telling you. It's the right time of year, and there was a good amount of moisture in the air and the temperature was right. Yeah they don't fly, but if there was a breeze then it could have appeared they were.

10/10/2008 4:48:36 PM

well previously he had said they were flying


in that case, you were retarded

10/10/2008 5:09:15 PM

do aphids fly?

10/10/2008 5:09:47 PM

yes

10/10/2008 5:11:18 PM

I would be spraying as much poison as possible in the vicinity.

10/10/2008 5:15:19 PM

10/10/2008 7:41:11 PM

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"well previously he had said they were flying in that case, you were retarded"

except he also said it was breezy, and you trying to call me out on them only coming out in spring.

10/10/2008 7:53:57 PM

hey i admitted rather quickly that i was incorrect

i personally never observed them in the fall, however i did some quick research after stating that i was not sure and found that they, too, come out in the fall

so im good man, the man said they were taking turns flying in a circle, implying that that an individual could be observed taking off, "flying in a circle" and landing back on the glass

anyone who reads that and thinks its a mite is a fuckin retard

[Edited on October 10, 2008 at 8:38 PM. Reason : to be fair]

10/10/2008 8:38:09 PM