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NORTHEAST VALLEY-Tiny black bugs swarmed into the Northeast Valley,where it"looked like a horror movie,"said one witness.Pete Kosednar,who owns a Scottsdale-based window-washing company,said he was walking about 6 a.m.Monday at the el Pedregal Festival Marketplace,near Scottsdale Road and Carefree Highway, where he saw bugs"hanging from the ceiling.They were everywhere."The black bug story is crawling all over the far Northeast Valley.The Scottsdale-based office of Arizona Exterminating Co.received many calls from Cave Creek,Carefree and north Scottsdale.There were sightings at a Scottsdale bank,where they were reportedly swarming over a wall,a few at a realty office,and at a grocery store.Debbie Bridges,in the management office of el Pedregal,said she had no reports about bitty black bugs at the marketplace.But that doesn't mean she hadn't seen them at all.Apparently some of the bugs preferred the north country."We saw black bugs swarming around on our way home (Sunday night) from Flagstaff,"she said.Without examining a sample,it is difficult to say what the bugs might be,said Jennifer Snyder,a research specialist with the University of Arizona's Maricopa Agricultural Center,based in Maricopa.But Snyder said the monsoon is bringing out many critters including cicadas,crickets and grasshoppers.In the desert,water is gold,Snyder said."Water is going to bring out all kinds of things and for a brief period of time usually because they're just completing their life cycle and it's just one stage and then they move on,"she said.Brian Benham,of the Boulder's Resort & Club,next door to el Pedegral,said the bugs turned up overnight in the area outside.A few crept inside,but he said he got no complaints from guests.They were clearing out Monday morning."We couldn't have stopped the bugs any more than we could have stopped the rain," Benham said. As in the days of Noah...
