Little bug(ger)s. Help

[Sue26]

Hi all
Can anyone identify these little bugs?
Van last used 3 weeks ago and they weren't there then. They are dead and there is no sign of anything crawling around in dark corners that I've been able to see.
Should I be worried?

Sue

 

[Bernie P]

They are Thrips…. Also known as Thunder flies..

Agreed. We get them at home they get into picture frames clock's etc then die. Real pain trying to clean them out.

 

[Dorwyn]

Still finding Stink bugs in my van since Bosnia last October!

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We thought we'd solved our issue, but today found a mini nest in the plate cupboard, now sorted, and a few solos since. They all were small ones, like yours. In the big nest we had in the battery locker last year, there were all sizes, some had black and white longitudinal stripes, some dark shells, a few smaller green ones, and a few huge ones, with what looked like eggs hanging from their skirts, the edges of their shells.

 

[DT]

Still finding Stink bugs in my van since Bosnia last October!

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Found one today alive, been there since early October last year. It’s a French one.

 

[Spriddler]

Found one today alive, been there since early October last year. It’s a French one.

I do wonder where they find food. All winter I've had an escapologist spider inside my m/h parked on the drive and it has only been out every two weeks for a half-hour 20 mile run and I've never noticed any flies inside.

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[Northernraider]

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[Northernraider]

Hi all
Can anyone identify these little bugs?
Van last used 3 weeks ago and they weren't there then. They are dead and there is no sign of anything crawling around in dark corners that I've been able to see.
Should I be worried?

Sue

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The 3 at the bottom are Pete, Angela and their son Kevin. The one at the too I'm sure he's called Brian...met him at John the earth worms barmitzva

 

[Ridgeway]

We call them thunder bugs, or thunderus buggus in Latin

 

[Jonno1103]

I thought they only spread at harvest time?

Relatives used to live opposite wheat fields, every summer they were deluged. They got everywhere, they seem to like crawling into the most inaccessible places, like round the back of photo frames and under the glass!

They get into LED TV screens too. I have one I keep scratching at thinking it's a mark.

 

[Jonno1103]

I do wonder where they find food. All winter I've had an escapologist spider inside my m/h parked on the drive and it has only been out every two weeks for a half-hour 20 mile run and I've never noticed any flies inside.

What? The spider can run 20 miles in half an hour???

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[PaulyP]

I thought it was a praying mantis!

Definitely a stick insect.

 

[Jewellbags]

Still finding Stink bugs in my van since Bosnia last October!

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We can beat that Italy last September - live one in the van 2 days ago

 

[Spriddler]

They get into LED TV screens too. I have one I keep scratching at thinking it's a mark.

Took me ages to get rid of one in my laptop screen.

 

[PaulyP]

Took me ages to get rid of the one in my laptop screen.




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I’m having the same problem

 

[Richard n Ann]

Corn midges round here, usually August time they are everywhere, totally harmless but annoying. They crawl into tight spaces same as they crawl into Corn ears, maybe the combines disturb them

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[The Wino]

Stick insect, I used to keep them.

I had some too as a kid I wonder why I bothered they aren't very interesting!

 

[PaulyP]

I had some too as a kid I wonder why I bothered they aren't very interesting!

That’s true, had all sorts of things for the kids, we ended up looking after everything.