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.

Update (July 2010): Incredibly, this article has had 10,000 hits since it’s been published (most of them being in July each year which seems to be peak season). Please read the comments below for tips and discussion. In my case, I found that the bug disappeared after a few days providing that you don’t squish it or anything. You don’t need to do anything elaborate like taking your screen apart (and would not be advised to). Please do drop a comment below and let us know what’s working for you.  – Ken

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  • pawncob@yahoo.co.uk said:

    I had a bug appear on my Chuwi tablet. I was convinced it was a software bug in Windows 10, but when I booted to Android it was still there. I put the tablet in direct sunlight for twenty minutes and cooked it to death.(fortunately off screen)

  • One of these damn thunder bugs is inside my Asus monitor, but it is inbetween the backlight and the screen from what I can see and has died nearly in the centre of the screen, extremely annoying, have tried all the tapping and suction tricks to no avail. A lemon grass diffuser does seem to keep them away from what I’ve seen from using it and not seeing anymore of these damn things. One also got in an iMac in the same room between the screen and the glass but it left overnight when I turned it off fortunately.

    Next monitor I get I will be putting fly filter cloth over the vents but I worry that this may cause overheating, I’ve also bought some of the tape mentioned in this thread to put over the outside of the bezel where there are gaps.

  • Mine is still there.
    I thought he was on the outside of the screen till I tried to get him off.
    He, I only assume it was he because he seemed so stupid, Just wandered around the screen for days till he finally perished in the upper left section of the golden rectangle off by just enough to again confirm it must have been a He.
    Oh the sights he must have seen on his long journey.
    I am going to name him Sir Anthony Frederick as it seems a fitting name for such an intrepid explorer.
    Godspeed Sir Anthony.
    May your travels always seem like an acid trip in space.

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