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08-07-2007, 06:01 PM
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| | | millions of minute black flies
My house and garden are alive with minute black flies they are everywhere. I have had them for 2 days now and they are so annoying. Indoors the window sills and every surface is covered smothered in dead ones.
We used to call them storm bugs but whats the right name.
I imagine its the weather thats caused this swarm, a couple of hot days after weeks of rain.
We are in Salisbury by the way.
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08-07-2007, 06:06 PM
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| | | Re: millions of minute black flies
Sounds like Thunderflies, a type of Thrip.
I think Colinaj started a thread on them not so long ago. |
08-07-2007, 07:59 PM
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| | | Re: millions of minute black flies
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Originally Posted by slowef  My house and garden are alive with minute black flies they are everywhere. I have had them for 2 days now and they are so annoying. Indoors the window sills and every surface is covered smothered in dead ones.
We used to call them storm bugs but whats the right name.
I imagine its the weather thats caused this swarm, a couple of hot days after weeks of rain.
We are in Salisbury by the way.
thanks | As I understand it, Thrips, Order Thysanoptera feed on various crop plants such as peas, grains and grasses. As soon as the crop is harvested, (or cut, in the case of hay), the billions of thrips take to the wing and drift downwind and become suddenly obvious to us. Farmers are probably desperate to harvest whenever they have a window of a couple of fine days during the terribly wet period we are going through. June is the month of hay-making and pea-harvesting so don't be surprised if you get loads more as farmers try to salvage what remains of their crops.  |
08-07-2007, 09:39 PM
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| | | Re: millions of minute black flies
They get through the tiniest of cracks - I've seen one marching across the mirror of my old film SLR hideously magnified! - I've no reason to suppose they can't invade digital cameras as well. If one invades your LCD computer screen, it will get to the middle before it dies, thus causing maximum inconvenience!
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08-07-2007, 11:29 PM
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| | | Re: millions of minute black flies
By the way, the books say that there's no such thing as a thrip! Thrips is the singular and plural (unless you go for thripses)!
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