🦟 Tiny white flies swarming in parts of the UK are being compared to #StrangerThings Upside Down
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The creatures, which measure less than one millimetre in length, seem to fly directly in people’s faces, causing some to fear they’ve swallowed them.
🌨 Other people have mistaken them for ash, blossom or even snowfall.
🌨 Other people have mistaken them for ash, blossom or even snowfall.
🧴 One woman on social media posted: “For anyone else who has had the fright of their lives the past few days seeing these, thinking they'd had a major dandruff outbreak or that it was snowing.”
👀 Another person on Facebook even likened them to "something in the Upside Down" – referencing hit Netflix show #StrangerThings 
🔎 The truth is they're Whitefly, and they're out in force all over the UK at the moment.
They're a relative of the sap-sucking aphid (greenfly) and though they love feeding off plants, they seem to be attracted to shiny cars and people’s coats.
They're a relative of the sap-sucking aphid (greenfly) and though they love feeding off plants, they seem to be attracted to shiny cars and people’s coats.
🐞 While they can be a garden pest, the good news, according to @The_RHS, is that the glut of bugs creates a source of food for other food chain enhancing insects, such as ladybirds, lacewings, wasps and spiders, that all help control pests.
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