What can swarm now?

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Helene, 01.11.2005 15:06

I can't figure out what kind of insects are flying outside my window (at the second floor level).
Since autumn ended prematurely in Moscow (the temperature dropped to about 0), some small insects have flown out en masse. They fly in a swarm ("jostle") in the crowns of apple trees and slightly higher. The swarm is very dense, moves up and down, and the insects inside it move very quickly. I wanted to collect it, but I couldn't even see it: they don't go down to the ground, they don't fly closer than ten meters to the balcony.
I understand that the question is very vague, but maybe there are versions?
Now they still fly, although there are much fewer of them.

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10.11.2005 14:43, Helene

No, it won't work. I once tried to extend the net so that I could get the ribbon that was sitting on the trunk (I wasn't sure. that it's just nupta). What happened was exactly what would happen if you just threw the net: it just hung on the tree (the connection to the stick fell apart), then they started pulling it out. As luck would have it, there's still a tree that you can't fit in.
And those insects are no longer visible, although it has warmed up... Maybe they're frozen out, but most likely they're just short-lived. I posted the question without a scan of the subject only when my hopes of collecting it almost disappeared...

PS With some delay, I myself remembered about the distance - that there was not 3 meters, but all 10. It's like in the joke about the commander at the exercises, who asked a subordinate what kind of battery did not shoot:
"Well, there were a number of reasons... First of all, the shells didn't arrive..."
"Well, then the second one doesn't matter anymore!"

This post was edited by Helene - 10.11.2005 14: 48

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