Mosquitos?

 This would be the early 1980s when I took my family by car to Banff and Jasper in Canada in the summer time camping. The kids were likely 5 to 10 years old (3 of them) then. I put a surfboard rack on our car roof and put plywood in place of where the surfboards went and put a white gas Coleman stove and fuel on the roof along with a large 5 man tent too big for backpacking used for car camping in larger campgrounds on top of the surfboard rack and drove up to Canada towards Banff and Jasper. 

On our way back to the U.S.- Canada border it was getting dark so we had to get our tent set up and thousands of mosquitos were out. So, while we were yelling from getting bit by thousands of mosquitos we ran and set up the tent quickly as a family because we had already done this many times before. We didn't even stake it down because we were going to be inside it immediately just for the night before we traveled across the border to the U.S. the next day.

Once we all got inside with all our bedding, we turned on our flashlights and killed mosquitos for 5 to 10 minutes. The little blood spots from our blood were all over the top and sides of the tent.

Then I looked at the sides of the tent and noticed what looked like animal fur along all the sides of the tent and wondered why this animal fur was moving. I finally realized that this moving animal hair was actually thousands and thousands of mosquitos trying to get at us from the outside of the tent which was horrific but we were grateful they couldn't get at us because of the tent and screening.

So, we went to sleep with our children towards the center and my wife and I on the outside guarding them from mosquitos. During the night I must have shifted toward a tent wall and woke up with 100 bites on my right hip from sleeping against a tent wall. But, luckily I was the only one to get bitten like this during the night beyond the bites we all got setting up the tent.

You have never seen this many mosquitos likely at one time in your life unless you have been to somewhere where there are millions of them seasonally like we ran into there. They can be like this especially in the northern States and Canada around rivers and lakes in forested areas in the summer time.