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What do you know about Thunder flies?

July 16, 2019 by Michele 1 Comment

Dee Farrell asks,

Has anyone got any idea what these thousands of tiny wriggly black fly things are..? They’re everywhere.. While decorating we took light switches & sockets off the walls to find them in their dead thousands. they’ve got into photo frames & into the screen of a brand new tv. I’ve heard them called thunder flies & wheat flies.. but nobody’s really sure.. I can’t even find them online. I’d never seen them before moving up the country. but I suppose we should think ourselves lucky that they don’t bite…!


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  1. lincs lass says

    July 17, 2019 at 6:04 pm

    Hi Dee
    they are known as thrips also storm flies and corn lice and take to the air especially in thundery weather.this is according to answers on the net.

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