gnat

Its water usually sits stagnant, attracting swarms of gnats to the field during the more humid months of the year.

With no screens or cell phones to take our attention, we ‘worked’ outside in the back of a pickup under a shade tree with a big fan that kept the gnats away.

Amid hordes of gnats they excavate that first fossil, which turns out to be a damaged leg bone.

Gracus glanced sidelong at this enormous gnat that continued to buzz in his ear.

The plant uses a musky odor to lure fungus gnats that usually feed and lay their eggs on mushrooms into their cup-shaped flowers.