Cranfield Posted July 27, 2010 Report Share Posted July 27, 2010 I have a thunderbug walking around on the inside of my monitor screen. :yes: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zapp Posted July 27, 2010 Report Share Posted July 27, 2010 They started harvesting around where I work this week, and the cursed things are EVERYWHERE! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawkeye Posted July 27, 2010 Report Share Posted July 27, 2010 I have a thunderbug walking around on the inside of my monitor screen. :good: So have i bloody annoying...keep trying to swat it :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fluke2 Posted July 27, 2010 Report Share Posted July 27, 2010 So have i bloody annoying...keep trying to swat it :good: get the gun out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Sarakun Posted July 27, 2010 Report Share Posted July 27, 2010 I've got 2 under the screen of my mobile phone. Tried to get them out with the airline. Blew the phone apart, still works though it all clipped back together ok. Didn't get them out though. I can hear them talking to each other now, whenever I take a call. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamster123 Posted July 27, 2010 Report Share Posted July 27, 2010 never seen one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badshot Posted July 27, 2010 Report Share Posted July 27, 2010 never seen one Do you want some?? I am sure cranfield and I could catch some and stick in the post for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death from below Posted July 27, 2010 Report Share Posted July 27, 2010 Nah, sorry, I'm a bit slow and I'm missing the joke here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badshot Posted July 27, 2010 Report Share Posted July 27, 2010 http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS...vBAb73AoeIoDVQ= Thunderbugs are thrips (see above link). They are the very small black bugs that descend on you by the million just prior to harvest. They drive you nuts by making you itch due to their tickly little feet, and get in every picture frame and behind the screens of phones and microwaves etc making you think you have hyphens where you don't. In summary no use to anything that I know of just there to annoy. Oh they are mainly (not exclusively though) found in arable areas so if you live in a mainly grass area you probably don't notice them as much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death from below Posted July 27, 2010 Report Share Posted July 27, 2010 Is that for real or another conspiracy theory I've heard of Thundercats and Thunderbirds and thunder/lightning and lady bugs(oh, soory, ladybirds) but never a Thunderbug.......oh, and thunderbird 20/20 (fall down juice) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlosdesilva Posted July 27, 2010 Report Share Posted July 27, 2010 ive always called them storm flies,why do they like to get behind glass? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lurcherboy Posted July 27, 2010 Report Share Posted July 27, 2010 Cranfield, I have a Rolls Royce Merlin lump positioned in the corner of my workshop connected to a Spitfire propeller , it seems to keep them away LB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badshot Posted July 28, 2010 Report Share Posted July 28, 2010 Is that for real or another conspiracy theory I've heard of Thundercats and Thunderbirds and thunder/lightning and lady bugs(oh, soory, ladybirds) but never a Thunderbug.......oh, and thunderbird 20/20 (fall down juice) Yeah they are for real, been driving me nuts today every time i got out of the combine. I'll be glad when I have cut the wheat as they will be gone then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawkeye Posted July 28, 2010 Report Share Posted July 28, 2010 get the gun out No chance might miss the little *******.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DSPUK Posted July 29, 2010 Report Share Posted July 29, 2010 I have always called them Thunderflies or harvest flies -- when you strip wallpaper off wall you always find some behind. The wheat in field at bottom of garden is now turning so we could be in for some soon. Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agusta Posted July 29, 2010 Report Share Posted July 29, 2010 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdubya Posted July 29, 2010 Report Share Posted July 29, 2010 this way they get called thrips or simply cornflies, my wife took me out for drink this afternoon after my weekly physio and we went out to a country pub and whilst sat outsideme quaffing back a bit of mordues worky ticket :unsure: her hair became a magnet for them funny as watching her try to swat em off. KW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fluke2 Posted July 29, 2010 Report Share Posted July 29, 2010 WANT ONE :unsure: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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