Watch out - Thunder bug alert!

Chocki · 22 Jul 2013 at 21:52

It's hot and there is a good possibility of lightning later on or you may already have it, if like me, you have your windows wide open, you may start to see small dots crawling across your monitor, if that's where they stay, then all's well, but as many of you know all to well, these little critters have a horrible habit of getting inside your monitor!.

Anyone else seen any tonight?

And is shutting the window the best solution?

philip2009 · 22 Jul 2013 at 22:08

I thought this was a monitor urban myth?

DarkBahamut · 22 Jul 2013 at 22:15

Thrips I believe?

It's surprising they can get in but I've personally seen them inside two monitors in the past.

panyan · 22 Jul 2013 at 22:40

got one in my new monitor the other day :mad:

Nightglow · 22 Jul 2013 at 22:56

Use to suffer fom this years ago with I think a Iiyama monitor I had. :mad:

Got Samsung monitors now & haven't the problem for four years now.

IvanDobskey · 22 Jul 2013 at 23:05

My parents PC monitor has a dead thunder bug stuck smack bang in the middle of the screen

Bane · 24 Jul 2013 at 11:50

Had one crawling around over the weekend and now just spotted where it die, just left of centre screen.

Edit:
A quick look at screen and can see 4 corpses in various sections. Might be more, but 4 are readily noticeable.

Diagro · 24 Jul 2013 at 11:59

Bane said:
Had one crawling around over the weekend and now just spotted where it die, just left of centre screen.

Edit:
A quick look at screen and can see 4 corpses in various sections. Might be more, but 4 are readily noticeable.

Gently tap the screen they should fall down as they shrink when they dry out.

Had a dozen in my hazro but gentle taps and they fall down. DONT SQUASH AS THEY WILL STICK

Hyburnate · 24 Jul 2013 at 12:06

IvanDobskey said:
My parents PC monitor has a dead thunder bug stuck smack bang in the middle of the screen

It'd help for FPS games without a center crosshair

DazQ87 · 26 Jul 2013 at 10:24

This happended to me all the time when I lived at my parents in a more rural location, used to get 2-3 in my monitors every year.

One year I was so hacked off that they had got into a brand new LG monitor I actually called LG and told them I had a spot of black dead pixels which had appeared overnight. They replaced it FoC with an identical monitor.

UberTiger · 27 Jul 2013 at 14:13

I used to get these a lot when I used to live in a rural village.

They were everywhere, I ended up trying to seal the edges of the monitor, problem is you can't do that to the vents at the top or back which is probably where they were getting in anyway