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With no screens or cell phones to take our attention, we ‘worked’ outside in the back of a pickup under a shade tree with a big fan that kept the gnats away.

Amid hordes of gnats they excavate that first fossil, which turns out to be a damaged leg bone.

Gracus glanced sidelong at this enormous gnat that continued to buzz in his ear.

The plant uses a musky odor to lure fungus gnats that usually feed and lay their eggs on mushrooms into their cup-shaped flowers.

Once inside, he spots gnats hovering above food rotting on dishes stacked in the kitchen.