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Jellycat
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 Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 10:47 am Post subject: Thrips |
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Thunderbugs ...
Storm flies...
Corn lice...
Call them what you will, it's that time of year when they're all over the place (in my tea, in my hair, all over the windows...).
And there's a dead one IN my monitor screen, which is really annoying!
Anyone know of a good deterrent? |
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Becki
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| Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 10:58 am Post subject: |
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Havn't got any.
Deterrant - Move here???? 
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Kathy
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| I don't know of any deterrent, I just put up with them! |
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Jellycat
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| Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 7:30 pm Post subject: |
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| I can generally deal with them, but the one that's crawled to the middle of the inside of my monitor screen and died is particularly annoying! |
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kaz
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| Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 7:50 pm Post subject: |
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What do they look like? (apart from flat under your monitor screen  ).
I don't know what we call them here 
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nanny
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| Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 8:17 pm Post subject: |
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| kaz wrote: | What do they look like? (apart from flat under your monitor screen ).
I don't know what we call them here |
if they are the things i am thinking of, they are normally found in areas where there is a lot of wheat growing...they are little teeny tiny bug things that you can rally only see as a speck
they fly in clouds in warm weather
that is probable 2 good reasons we haven't got them here
no arable farming
no hot weather  |
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Jellycat
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That's the chaps nanny - teeny tiny little flying things - you can usually feel them on your skin before you see them, although if you sit outside in a white t-shirt, you'll soon see millions of the little boogers
We used to call them thunderbugs when I was a sprog... |
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nanny
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that's the ones
to my knowledge there is nothing that will deal with them till the corn is harvested and then they just seem to disappear....
some years they are worse than others, a long hot summer makes them worse i think
haven't seen any here at all, even the flies have been easy this year...i thought htey would be awful living on a farm with lots oaf animals but we have seen hardly any comparatively |
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