Originally Posted by
jet sanchEz
They are aphids from the soy fields west and north of Toronto. I guess the humidity makes them swarm or something, it is gnarly.
The ones I encountered appeared to just be blackflies.. tiny little black things. I always thought aphids were green (and apparently I was correct), but oddly enough when I searched on wikipedia one of their aliases is "blackfly". I don't get it. When I say "blackfly" I mean gnats..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simuliidae.
