tiny midge on my computer screen

Moved

Moved from Ants.

… Jonathan Hoskins, 8 December, 2020 - 10:45am

Please Unlink Them

Marjorie, if what Brendon is saying is correct and perhaps these are two different individuals filmed at different times, then you should select "unlink", just above this image and then you may want to edit both image posts as separate ones, possibly with links to the other ones in the text, to serve as your reference to the behavioral similarities and the proximity of the two sightings.

… Bob Biagi, 10 August, 2015 - 4:48pm

The two images you posted are of different ant subfamilies. The one from dorsal view is a member of the Myrmicinae, and is probably Temnothorax. The other is a formicine, Lasius.

… Brendon E. Boudinot, 10 August, 2015 - 4:11pm

Moved

Moved from ID Request.

… v belov, 27 July, 2015 - 10:20pm

ant, i presume

… v belov, 23 July, 2015 - 6:10pm

Wasp!

Marjorie, Flies do not have antennae like that. Your wasp is most likely in the parasitica Apocrita and it may be something related to this platygastrid from your state:

You may like to know that they are very hard to ID, even with a good image. Also, your computer screen is not the best place to film your bugs. You may want to frass. I suggest that you try to capture the next one, with a small plastic container. Good Luck!

… Bob Biagi, 22 July, 2015 - 7:19pm

Hi Bob, I have just submitted

Hi Bob, I have just submitted a new picture of one of these little "fairy wasps" along with the original from this request. Quite clearly a wasp. Can you tell from this picture which kind it is?

… Marjorie Melnick, 27 July, 2015 - 10:15pm

Thanks, Bob, They were congre

Thanks, Bob, They were congregating on the screen because it was the only light in the room, I guess. They are almost as small as no-see-ums! I never knew anything in the wasp family could be that small.

… Marjorie Melnick, 22 July, 2015 - 8:52pm

Heck, wasps can get MUCH smaller than this ...

... some are even smaller than a bacterium:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairyfly

… Bob Zuparko, 23 July, 2015 - 9:45am

Links!

I don't know if they can be that small, but here is your link: (nice!)
Wikipedia article on Fairyflies

Here is a bugGuide entry from Canada: (notice the feathered wings)

Here is the only video of one on YouTube, that I found: (4sec. duration, 11sec. total)
Fairyfly

Check them out!

… Bob Biagi, 23 July, 2015 - 10:31am

Well, there is an amazing min

Well, there is an amazing miniature world out there, to be sure! I wish there were a course on entomology at UMass where I work. Unfortunately, they have done away with it. Thanks for the links - extremely cool!

… Marjorie Melnick, 23 July, 2015 - 3:06pm