This afternoon (13/1/2015) we were looking out of our sunroom and noticed a strange bit of mist. On getting my binoculars on the case I found it to be a cloud of tens of thousand of insects. They appeared with naked eye to be flying away, but with binoculars I thought they were circling. Here are some images In the second one it may be possible to see there are two streams coming from the top of each tree. There was a loud buzzing noise but that could just be several thousand wings. Earlier in the day Frances had been to some nearby willows and they were infested with many little black soft bodied insects. Perhaps they shifted to the pines and were swarming? Help!! Any information welcome. A colleague, from Wamboin, had noticed a similat phenomenon, but involvng eucalypts rather than pines! Here are the photos he took with his phone. I have consulted some expert friends. Their responses were: I would have gone for chironomids. I rec...
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