Tiny bugs on monitor?

Dr.EM

Dr.EM

Dr.EM

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Not the tiny flies that get inside the LCD panel fortunately, but since moving to uni (and it's a new monitor, but I think that's irrelevant) I am noticing tiny bugs crawling on my monitor frequently. There may be 2 or 3 on there when I come back to it and switch it on. They are on the outside as I can knock them off (they don't seem to squish) but they keep re-appearing. They are only about 0.5mm, really tiny, move across the screen slowly.

Anyone had these before? Any idea how to get rid of them permanently? I don't like to keep touching my new monitor to move them away, maybe there's a cleaning spray that'll repel/kill them?
 
Don't think they are, no jumping, they just slowly crawl. There's no animals in this house, it's a student shared house. I try to keep it and myself clean but I guess there's the potential something has been left in the carpet, doesn't look like it's been cleaned, all I can do is hoover it.
 
Dr.EM said:
Not the tiny flies that get inside the LCD panel fortunately, but since moving to uni (and it's a new monitor, but I think that's irrelevant) I am noticing tiny bugs crawling on my monitor frequently. There may be 2 or 3 on there when I come back to it and switch it on. They are on the outside as I can knock them off (they don't seem to squish) but they keep re-appearing. They are only about 0.5mm, really tiny, move across the screen slowly.

Anyone had these before? Any idea how to get rid of them permanently? I don't like to keep touching my new monitor to move them away, maybe there's a cleaning spray that'll repel/kill them?
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got any fruit lying around they sound like fruit flys.
 
There are some banana skins in my bin actually. Are fruit flies really that tiny? Looking at them I'd have said they couldn't fly, they look more like crawly things. I'd take a photo but I don't think I can focus on anything this small!
 
d_brennen said:
These?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrips

Not sure if you find them in the UK but theres tons of threads about them. Google "thunder flies in my monitor" :eek:
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Could be, fortunately these aren't inside the panel, mabye they can't get in on my new monitor, just on the outside. I had one inside my old monitor, got stuck there the damn thing, but I thought those were a summer thing? It's not very warm in here!

Banana skin only from yesterday, I don't think it could be responsible.
 
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