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Apr 12th 2010, 3:21 am

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Re: Tiny Green Flies

This is the best I could manage. The paper it's on is a normal notepad so the lines are 7mm apart which gives a vague size guide.

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Apr 12th 2010, 3:33 am

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Re: Tiny Green Flies

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This is the best I could manage. The paper it's on is a normal notepad so the lines are 7mm apart which gives a vague size guide.

That's not what I'm getting. Ours are more like Green Flies.

That looks more like a locust, which incidently are plaguing large areas of inland QLD right now

Apr 12th 2010, 4:31 am

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That's not what I'm getting. Ours are more like Green Flies.

That looks more like a locust, which incidently are plaguing large areas of inland QLD right now

we got the tiny locusts here in CQLD too

Apr 12th 2010, 5:09 am

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Oh, so it's not just me who has developed green fly then!!!!! HUNDREDS of them got in the other night!!!!

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Apr 12th 2010, 5:32 am

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Anyone on the Gold Coast (they may be elsewhere, no idea) what these tiny green flies are that can get through the screens and seem to jump as well as fly? Can't find them on my bug site. Doing our heads in at the moment and they seem to require more Mortein than normal bugs to finish them off. There are millions of the bloody things. What are they and how long does their season last? Can't remember them being as bad in previous years but then it's been a bad year so far for mozzies etc so maybe it's the same for these little sods.

this is funny, I noticed loads of these little green flies last night whilst I was washing up... they were attracted to the kitchen light and kept banging into the window.

I've got no idea what they are... they look weird though.

Apr 12th 2010, 5:43 am

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This is the best I could manage. The paper it's on is a normal notepad so the lines are 7mm apart which gives a vague size guide.

After capturing it, did you interrogate it ?

"what exactly are you, green fly?"

Apr 12th 2010, 6:02 am

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After capturing it, did you interrogate it ?

"what exactly are you, green fly?"

He (or she) was dead, didn't say a lot, unhelpful little sod.

Apr 12th 2010, 8:59 am

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Re: Tiny Green Flies

got the bug light on outside, zap the little shit before they get in the house.

Apr 12th 2010, 9:08 am

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got the bug light on outside, zap the little shit before they get in the house.

you`d need a lot of bug zappers mate, the kitchen windows got literaly thousands of the little green buggers on it

Apr 12th 2010, 9:51 am

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you`d need a lot of bug zappers mate, the kitchen windows got literaly thousands of the little green buggers on it

We've had to bite the bullet and close all windows and doors and put the air con on dehumidify so we don't cook. It's not nice but preferable to being infested by the little buggers.

Apr 12th 2010, 10:10 am

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OMG - my windows are absolutely PLASTERED with these things tonight!!!!! YUK!!!

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Apr 12th 2010, 11:33 am

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Re: Tiny Green Flies

They are green on the inside too!! Squashed a load of 'em the other night. Thought it was because our grass had got so long and was just cut the other day but obviously not!