What Is This Insect

[buttplate]

We have been seeing tiny flying gnat size insects outside around our front porch and occasionally a few inside. WELL, this morning I discovered a bunch, several hundred on the wall and ceiling in the kitchen above the dog's water bowl. There is a night light above the bowl so I am sure they were drawn to the light. These things look like little mosquitoes but I have looked and found no standing water nore have we been over run by adult mosquitoes.

Does anyone have any idea what we are seeing? These are some pictures

 

[UptaCamp]

Not mosquitos, likely midges.

 

[mfoster]

Maybe mayfly

 

[Beawer]

Democrats

 

[chucklenut]

Democrats

naw, these bugs actually look useful and were put on this earth by god himself

 

[buttplate]

More pictures.

Not mosquitos, likely midges.

What are midges and how do we get rid of them?

 

[Ken Ford]

Love bugs…
Called that because they fly around “attached”.
They cover windshields from Georgia to Fla.

 

[Tillybell]

Midges.

Here's what they look like not dead and floating in water: