Bug crawling around inside screen

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I think I killed it by hitting the screen hard where it was :( Bad place to die !
 
This has happened to me a few times during the summer months when i have my window open, so far it has always been little midges/corn flies, all i do is unplug my monitor and lay it face down on the floor over night and make sure the is no light visible to the front of the screen, leave your room light on, the stronger the better, i use my bathroom as the lights are really bright in there and hopefully it will climb out of the vents on the back and head to the light, best of luck m8.
 
this happened at work, we have all the laptops at the front of the shop and loads of "thunderbugs" flew in last summer and because my manager said I couldnt turn the screens off so they wouldnt be attracted to them, we ended up with about 8 or 9 laptops ruined where they crawl into the lcd and die... I got home and had one in my monitor so i left it off and hoped for the best and thankfully it had gone in the morning, squishing them is not a good idea lol
 
urgh, i'd be so enraged if that happened to me.

why are LCD's made with these gaps for the horrible things to get into anyway? (not the screens but the panels themselves)
 
Aod said:
urgh, i'd be so enraged if that happened to me.

why are LCD's made with these gaps for the horrible things to get into anyway? (not the screens but the panels themselves)
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Cheap. To make something with a higher tolerances would be more expensive and no one would buy them.
 
Had this happen to me a while back.

Hot summer night, gaming, drinking beers, French doors open, staggered off to bed leaving everything switched on, as you do.

Next morning whilst doing emails I noticed about 20 pixels moving about the screen, proper WTF moment ! I thought I was either tripping or had downloaded some sort of virus.

Then I saw the pixels were storm flies ! I squished one and flicked the screen. The dead fly dropped to the bottom. Emboldened, I squished the rest of them but when I flicked the screen the flies stayed stuck

:( Oh Noes :(

A few dried out enough to fall to the bottom of the screen and out of sight but the others remained stuck. I took that as a cue to move from a 17" display a new 26" widescreen display and resolved to always switch the screen off at night.
 
Bummer.

Another good reason to get AC and thereby not need the window open in summer. And I thought just having flies buzz you at night was annoying enough. I had no idea this could happen. Freaky.
 
lol that happened to me on an old monitor of mine. What I did at the time was get my xbox controller placed it on top of the screen. Let it vibrate for a long time and it "shook" the bug off and fell to bottom. Its still in the monitor but right at the bottom where you cant see it anymore. Not sure if strong vibrations can damage the monitor but mine was quite old and wasnt really too bothered about what would happen to it.
 
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