J.R.B.,
These little boogers don't bite, sting or anything like that. They just love to crawl around on you in your sweat, and will crawl up your nose, in your eyes, ears and any other bare skinned place on you. Take a deep breath suddenly and they go down your windpipe. As I said, they crawl around on animals, too. They have been blamed for conjunctivitis (sore eyes) among other things. Try to eat barbecued pork and you might as well cover the meat with pepper so's you can't see the gnats. You can't ignore them. They are worse in very humid hot weather, and only exist in worrisome numbers South of the Fall Line in the Southeast U.S. In the fall when the mornings are cool they swarm over the highway in a swarm that may number in the hundreds of thousands, trying to find a warm spot in the sun. They laugh at Cutters, and I ain't sure what buhach is. Some kind of cigar?
The joke? "Know how to keep gnats away from your face? Cut a hole in the seat of your pants."
SRH
