Can anyone ID theese insects

[buffalo7]

They are about 5mm long w/o the white fuzz on them, they look like a piece of cotton floating around. I first saw them about 3:00 this after noon.

 

[krayfish]

2 midges, possible trico or small olive

second picture is something a spider already ate

 

[buffalo7]

krayfish wrote:
2 midges, possible trico or small olive

second picture is something a spider already ate

I was referring to the ones in the center of the pics with the white fuzz on them.

 

[TUNA]

buffalo: I see those things along the Little J all of the time. I'm curious as to what they are also.

Maybe: woolly aphid (Hemiptera/Sternorrhyncha: Eriosomatidae) ????

 

[pcray1231]

I strongly think some type of woolly aphids. Examples:

http://bugguide.net/node/view/19512

http://bugguide.net/node/view/79019

Sap eaters.

Pretty sure a given species only attacks one or two host plants, but there are many species, each for different specific plants. Like ants, they produce winged breeding adults only at specific times, which coincide with their host plants sap cycle. I can tell by my back deck that the maples are seriously sapping right now, so maybe thats it....

 

[buffalo7]

TUNA,pcray,
Thanks, thats definitely what they are buy looking at the pic, just about all of them were flying over the river, I guess they're hatching from some of the trees on the bank, It looked like they were ascending from the river. The spider webs are on the woven wire guard thats conected from the bridge deck to a cable 4' above. Those spiders have it made.