WSJ.com - You Don't Bother Me, Black Fly, Say Fans Of 'Jaws on Wings'

WSJ.com - You Don't Bother Me, Black Fly, Say Fans Of 'Jaws on Wings':

"Of the 255 types of black flies in North America, most are only a few millimeters in length, smaller than the common house fly. Five or six biting varieties are virulent in northern New England, upstate New York and eastern Canada, which abound in the clean, running water that the flies need for food and egg-laying. This year's black-fly season came late because of cold weather, but it is shaping up as an unusually bad one, insect experts say, because of big runoffs from heavy snowfall and recent rains.

Naturalists suspect the black-fly problem is growing because the water is getting cleaner."

I don't even know what to say...late because of global warming, but bad because of the cleaner environment. Hmmm...