Bug inside LCD Screen

July 14th, 2007

Argh, help! I’ve got a living bug crawling around inside my LCD computer monitor! It’s actually walking around which is quite annoying. I’ve no idea how it got in there but it’s small enough to have fit through the small holes at the back of the monitor.

On the bright side, there only seems to be one so they won’t be making babies in there any time soon. Has anyone ever had bugs inside their monitors and how did they get rid of them? The advice I’ve had so far is to wait for them to die and hope that they die off screen or somewhere where it won’t affect the picture too much.

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  1. # Ollie Bradleyon 15 Jul 2007 at 9:53 am

    Yeah, I’ve had a few whilst I had my PC set up near to our back door in the summer. I made the terrible mistake of squishing them on a few occasions which made them stick to the monitor. I tried to take apart the monitor to get it out, but no luck. So since I’ve relocated my PC and got a different monitor… next time I have a bug, I’ll just remember to leave it and hope it goes away!

    They’re obviously attracted to the light / warmth or something.

  2. # Khloon 15 Jul 2007 at 1:02 pm

    Thanks Ollie - I haven’t squished it. I’m hoping it’ll fall off. I turned it on the next morning and it’s still there, alive and kicking. I’ve looked around some of the photo frames in this room and it seems like they all have a couple of thunderfly insects inside them.

  3. # Adam Dempseyon 15 Jul 2007 at 6:49 pm

    I had one in a laptop at work, I thought it was on the top of the screen so i squashed it, then i realised it was inside the screen.  So I know have a permanent black mark in the screen!

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  5. # Simon Loftuson 12 Aug 2007 at 10:59 pm

    Hi, im watching a thunderfly in my monitor this very second hahaha.  I also went to rub the mark off, though DOH my lil cousins knocked my monitor and made a mark, then i opened up the screen on msn to tell my gf, to find it crawling over the grass on my background(well not like it knew it was grass, then it was all over her chat box.

     Right now im trying to tap above it to make it walk off itself, but not having much luck, it is running in circles around the status bar.

     

    HAHAHA insane little thing, how did it get its way all the way in there. 

  6. # Cowon 07 Apr 2008 at 12:33 pm

    I’ve had a lot of hits on this page recently so I wanted to update everyone for the benefit of people who are finding this entry in Google. Don’t squish the bug or do anything or you’ll get it stuck. Put up with it. It should just magically disappear within two or three days. I continued using my monitor when there was a bug inside it and there were no problems.

  7. # Bethon 15 Jun 2008 at 4:17 am

    yeah…I tried to squish mine and figured i’d suffer the mark….apparently mine refuses to be squished and its driving me insane. I’m tempted to keep trying but i’m hoping it’ll go away. For now I named it buggy b/c it’s driving me buggy and my best friend suggested the name after I said I was thinking of naming it…

  8. # Nathanon 28 Jun 2008 at 10:13 pm

    I realize this is an old blog, but since it is the first result that comes up when you google “bug inside screen” I thought I’d post my experience and the solution I thought of.

    Obviously I was having the same problem, at first I just waited and waited for the bug to go out of the screen, like cross the border where he would leave the actual screen and then I would try to press the side of the screen to squash it while it’s not anywhere important, but the damn bug kept turning round when he came close to the edge.

    So I after reading about a poster on this blog saying “the bug is prolly attracted to the light/heat” I thought of the following;

    Turn off your screen, take a lamp that you can hang over your screen (preferrably one that’s quite bright), turn it on and hang it like 2 cm’s above your screen.. my theory was that the bug would see bright light coming from the top of the screen and/or feel that the top was warmer..

    And it worked! After about an hour I turned on my laptop.. and voila.. no more bug.. :)

  9. # Alex.on 13 Jul 2008 at 6:25 pm

    I just squished the bug in mine! … is there anyway at all that i can get it out..?

    If not. Do you think it will rot away?
    If it will rot how long?

    ?!

  10. # ihasabugon 16 Jul 2008 at 3:16 pm

    Nggghhhhhhhhhhhh this is so annoying

    a pet storm fly is not what I wanted

  11. # mikeeon 23 Jul 2008 at 4:44 pm

    i never seen this untill i squished mine and then i realised it would stay there so i searched bug inside screen XD

  12. # Japeon 23 Jul 2008 at 5:23 pm

    i have like 6 dead bugs inside my screen.

    i hate insects.

  13. # Yasser Abbasion 24 Jul 2008 at 1:58 pm

    I have about 20 crawling around on my screen……any way to get rid of these things??

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  15. # Rasmus Christiansenon 26 Jul 2008 at 8:10 pm

    Hi all.

    So, I have this problem too, you see.
    I haven’t tried to do anything to get rid of it, other than squish it. But I can’t :p

    I’ll try the “Turn off screen, put lamp near screen, turn on lamp and wait an hour or two”.

    Seems very logic to me.

    Maybe I’ll post here if it works or not :)

    - Regards, Rasmus :)

  16. # Benon 21 Sep 2008 at 4:50 pm

    I got a little fruit fly in my laptop screen. He managed to crawl to the middle of the screen and die. Brand new computer, too. Wonder if BestBuy can “repair” this…

  17. # Emiilyon 23 Sep 2008 at 3:25 pm

    I Recently got 2 bugs in my screen it was really annoying. At first i thought they were just crawing around across the screen so squished them ! Big mistake. But luckly I had the a brilliant idea… I scratch the screen gently with my nail and the bug started to fad i scrathed some more and hay presto they somehow fadded into the screen. So Far i havent noticed any damage by me scratching the screen… Sorry if you try this and do make damage to your screen. Remember scratch gently. Emiily x

  18. # Jasonon 28 Nov 2008 at 4:00 am

    can bestbuy fix this?

  19. # Janineon 02 Dec 2008 at 4:26 pm

    I had the very same a while ago with a thunder fly. Damn thing crawled around for a while (which was quite cute) but then it DIED on my screen. So i keep thinking it’s an ” ‘ ” or a ” , ” depending on the text i’m reading! axtually the comma looks very much like it, right angle as well!

    Did consider ringing IT helpdesk to say there was a “bug” in my pc. See what they say ;) hehe

    I am considering the gentle scratching thing now though. :) ta x

  20. # laurenon 03 Dec 2008 at 4:20 pm

    i hv the same problem!! i was so freaked out when i saw it moving! its about the size of a ‘ and its so damn annoying:(

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