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Lizzie

Thrips

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?
Becki

Havn't got any.

Deterrant - Move here???? Laughing
Kathy

I don't know of any deterrent, I just put up with them! Laughing
Lizzie

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!
kaz

What do they look like? (apart from flat under your monitor screen Very Happy ).
I don't know what we call them here Shocked
nanny-now and forever

kaz wrote:
What do they look like? (apart from flat under your monitor screen Very Happy ).
I don't know what we call them here Shocked


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 Smile
Lizzie

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 Laughing

We used to call them thunderbugs when I was a sprog...
nanny-now and forever

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
mc55

whatties !!! how will I know if I've got them

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