# What do these goddamn gnats want from me???

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 28, 2017, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-these-goddamn-gnats-want-from-me/783248 "2017-03-28T21:11:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![HoneyBadgerDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honeybadgerdc/32/1033_2.png) [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2017, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-these-goddamn-gnats-want-from-me/783248/21 "2017-03-31T21:56:55Z")

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Are gnats one particular insect or does it refer to any number of tiny insects that tend to swarm around our faces and counters? One place I work has tiny fruit fly’s that swarm around the recycle bins. Everyone calls them gnats.

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**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2017, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-these-goddamn-gnats-want-from-me/783248/22 "2017-04-01T05:14:59Z")

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> [@Enola\_Gay](#):
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> The weird thing is that they bother me, one at a time. If a whole swarm of them flew in front of my face, that would make more sense…but they come at me one at a time. When I kill the one that’s been molesting me, another comes along to take his spot. What’s up with that???

One at a time is the usual MO.

Unless you are bike riding and hit a freaking cloud of gnats. If you are slathered up in sunscreen they will stick to your skin and die by the tens of dozens. You literally look like someone attacked you with a pepper mill. Of course you get them in the teeth also.

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