sometime in the recent past Omelet posted this:
In article ,
Wilson wrote:

Don't know if this is the right place to ask, but this time of year in New
England we get what look like minute balls of white to whitish-blue fuzz
flying about. If you catch one, they look like little black flies with bits
of fuzz around the abdomen. Any ideas what they're called? The air can get
quite busy with them.

I think those are called white flies.
Yes, that's it, the Latin for which is Paraprociphilus tessellatus

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Wilson 44.69, -67.3