How to get a thunder fly out from behind the display on my laptop?

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If you live in the countryside at harvest time, you'll know those minute black flies, around half a mm long, that itch on your skin and in your hair! They appear to be able to creep inside picture frames and expire behind the glass. Yesterday one appeared, astonishingly inside the lcd display of my notebook. It's dead and immobile, and always seems to be where the screen is light! Any ideas anyone? Or maybe I just have to have the display taken apart and cleaned? And, PS: what are thunder flys for? Surely they're too small to be eaten, too tiny to have mouth-parts, and even water must be like treacle to them... perhaps they're pollinators?

sewrobb · Accepted Answer

Sorry but it will be there till the end of time!

It depends actually where it has got into. Your screen is made up of 3 plastic membranes.

Looking from the front you have a protective membrane and the next two which are bonded together contain the pixel circuitry and they are built into a special support frame.

Now if the black fly has got between the protective membrane and the other two then it's possible to remove it. If it's got between the other two then its not, it will mean a new one.

However you wont be able to strip it. It needs to be done in a workshop by someone who knows what they are doing because of the very fine and delicate circuitry.

bodette · Answer

Thunderfly

Carter_k1 · Answer

I'm afraid you're going to have to take the screen apart to get at it, apparently it happens a lot.

As for the Thunderflies part: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrips

Anonymous · Answer

Interesting considering laptop displays are a quarter inch thick and are sealed units.

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