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Are you inundated with those tiny little thunder bugs at the moment where you live....?

We don't normally get them ,but these last few weeks they seem to get every little knook and cranny....They get in pictures ,between the glass and the actual picture ...How do you stop them ?

Posted - July 21, 2018

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  • 13071
    What is a Thunderbug?
      July 21, 2018 11:16 AM MDT
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  • 14795
    A tiny little flying black bug...you can just about see them they are that small....you can feel them when they touch your skin and they find there way into the screens of your TVs and every where you don't want them....
      July 21, 2018 11:30 AM MDT
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  • 44603
      July 21, 2018 11:42 AM MDT
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  • 13071
    Thanks big guy. ;)
      July 21, 2018 11:42 AM MDT
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  • 13071
    They call them Knats around here, and yes, we have seen an exceptional amount of them around here lately. ;)
      July 21, 2018 11:42 AM MDT
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  • 6477
    We have gnats, basically tiny mosquitoes but thunder bugs here are different beasties,, they are small black, kinda elongated, and their hind end often waves up and down. They don't do any harm that I know but they do tickle like mad when they land on you. 
      July 21, 2018 2:00 PM MDT
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  • 6477
    Image result for thunder bugs
      July 21, 2018 2:02 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    The ones we have here are about 1 mm long and les the half a milli metre wide....they find their way into the tinyist gaps and infest electrical equipment.... 
      July 21, 2018 4:17 PM MDT
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  • 13071
    Ew, there is another species of tiny irritating bugs besides knats. Do they sting?
      July 21, 2018 3:02 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    No...they are arm less and don't sting or bite....they just land on anything including your food or body....they don't carry diseases....they are just so annoying ....  
      July 21, 2018 4:22 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    Gnats bite and are mosquitos....they bring dieases like malaria and other nasties to.....
    These tiny bugs are so small that they are so hard to see.... 
      July 21, 2018 2:25 PM MDT
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  • 10635
    We don't have those around here.  It's so hot we don't even have any mosquitoes (quite strange for summer).  I am, however, inundated with rats/mice.  Not just any rats/mice but the rats/mice from NIMH (from the old movie).  The dismantled one of my traps, left the metal springs, and carted off the rest.
      July 21, 2018 1:47 PM MDT
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  • 6477
    Aww I didn't know there was a movie, but I do remember reading that story to my sons when they were little :)
      July 21, 2018 1:57 PM MDT
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  • 10635
    The secret of NIMH (1982)
      July 21, 2018 2:01 PM MDT
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  • 6477
    Nope I have no thunder-bugs.. I think you have got them all ... very selfish really, you should share them :P
      July 21, 2018 1:56 PM MDT
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  • 22891
    no but ive head to deal with bedbugs before
      August 6, 2018 4:56 PM MDT
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  • 343
    Yes, they even insinuated themselves into the notches carved on the handle of this gun - oh, are you still here?
      August 20, 2020 10:52 PM MDT
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