RE: [ukha_d] Thunderflies and LCDs!

[Marcus Warrington <marcus.warrington@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I seem to remember the solution last time was to turn off the screen
and
leave in a room with a light source. Presumably they're attracted to the
light ....???


-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Phil Harris
Sent: 12 July 2006 20:01
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Thunderflies and LCDs!




I remember this being brought up last year but earlier today I
noticed a few
of the tiny thunderflies wandering about on the screen of my
faithfull old
Sony VAIO...

...anyway, a quick flick of the finger and all were disloged
except for one
of the little buggers which my finger seemed to just brush over.
DAMN! It
was behind the front surface of the LCD ... and it had decided
that it liked
it there as it wasn't going anywhere!

Anyway ... If you find yourself in the same predicament and the
bug in
question hasn't been there for long (i.e. it's still alive) then
I managed
to encourage it to extracate itself by tapping on the screen
about 1cm away
from it just hard enough to cause the screen to "ripple"
slightly and the
little bugger started to move away from where I was tapping - it
took a
little while (and obviously you don't want to do it hard enough
to crack the
screen or squish it) but eventually the little sod was away from
the
viewable area of the display!

Phil







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