Tere! Can someone help me identify these little insects that congregate on the corners and ceilings of my room? They only appear at night and seem to be very stupid. Looks as if there are several types as well.

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1. They are local mosquitos. Not dangerous, but females want your blood. Just kill’em all with vacuum cleaner.

2. Most of them fall down and die in the morning.

3. Bugs like a nice home for the same basic reasons you do. They want food, water, and shelter. If they can find these in your house, they’ll move in.

4. They mostly come at night.

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5. you may have better luck asking on r/whatsthisbug or some sub similar

6. It’s a quite common occurence, if you live next to a body of water or some forest, and leave your lights on and windows open during dark hours. If this bothers you, I’d suggest getting a bug net for your windows. It’s not fun cleaning up every morning.

7. I can’t turn on the lights in my room because of them. As soon as there is a single light on then a swarm of different insects starts flooding my room.

8. this is why i installed a bug net on my windows 💀

9. Nope, this apartment is done. Time to find a new one and leave this for nature.

10. /r/whatisthisbug

11. Those look like mosquitoes. Spiders are most useful against them, so ask some spider to live with you. Also, spiders are cute pets.

12. The local politsei can help

13. Those are no-biting mosquitoes (chironomus plumosus) light attracts them and some are so small, that even a 2 layer mosquito net does not stop them (personal experience).

14. Try those pheromone trap things , I think they have it for these too, I wanted to buy pheromone traps for cloth moths, had a recent infestation. I think they are sticky traps but pheromone smell will trap them inside of it and they will die.