The thrips are out, it's that time of year again

[geeks]

Thunderbugs, midges whatever you call them, it's that time of year a couple of days where we are inundated with them partly because we are near the edge of the fens and also in part because we are in the middle of a farm.

Irritating little bds get everywhere we founds some in a picture frame recently and when I was on the Helpdesk many years ago we used to get new screen requests from people where they have got into the panel and died looking like lots of tiny dead pixels.

Don't get me wrong I know we need bugs and insects and the uptick we seem to have had this year is a good thing but its still annoying

[s6boy]

Yup been bombarded with them all afternoon. Never heard them called Thrips before.

[Tango13]

I was out on the bike a couple of weekends back and a live one managed to get inside my crash helmet and worm it's way between my earplug and ear canal.

More than a bit irritating!

[Mandat]

Coming from sarf London, I assumed from the title that the thread would be about thrupenny bits.

[motco]

Maximum length 1mm according to Wikipedia, these little blighters get in everywhere: picture frames, doorbell camera housings for example, and they are called thrips no matter if there's only one - it's still a thrips.

A bug's life

Edited by motco on Tuesday 8th July 17:44