[rufus_foreman]

They're cute. They're pretty much harmless in my experience.

They swarm all over the PNW, in season. Don't step on them if you can help it. They're not death newts. I'd be a dead commenter if they were death newts.

They swarm all over the trails in spring, and then they're gone for the rest of the season. That's my recollection of it.

I don't live there anymore, maybe they have evolved into these dangerous death newts. One can hope.