Those bugs swarming the city are native New Yorkers.
Photo: Clouds Hill Imaging Ltd./Getty Imageswho volunteers with the American Museum of Natural History, started getting emails about the bugs swarming New York City yesterday but couldn’t identify them based on photos alone. So I sent him a close-up from the amateur documentarians on sub-Reddit NYCbike, members of which were getting caught in clouds of flies. “These are aphids,” Sorokin said, confidently. “I’ve never seen such large numbers before.
Plant-lovers, rest assured. “The kinds of aphids that are a problem in gardens — I’ve never seen this kind of population explosion, and it doesn’t feel like the right time of year for those ones either,” says Sam Anderson, an expert in urban farming with Cornell Cooperative Extension. “I would expect some sort of predator to capitalize on this.” Which is why he thinks a summer boom in ladybugs is “not out of the question.
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