It’s very small like a gnat. and it’s crawling behind the clear plate in front of my view and disappearing for a while. I pressed up against it and it didn’t show any pressure on the bug.
Yep, seen it before.
You better hope he finds his way back out again. It’s entirely possible for him to die stuck in a visible place on the monitor, and you might not be able to easily get him out at that point.
Don’t squish him, or then he’ll be even harder to get out.
Some monitors have screws hidden under removable covers around the outside of the screen, so you can remove the glass (it’s actually probably plastic). If all else fails, sometimes you can stick a suction cup on the screen and pull it out just enough to work him loose after he dies, and then you can shake the monitor to get him down out of sight.
I’ve seen it. Little bastards. You can try shaking him down now and see if he’ll stay down if you knock him loose.
I had roaches living in my pc speakers before. Does that count?
Had that happen before (the screen bug, not the speaker roaches.)
Yes you are an honorary sufferer.
What is the environment he is crawling in when you see him? He seems to have room, and it doesn’t look like hes swimming or drowning. Is there air between the surface and the picture screen?
Yep, it’s just an air gap behind the screen’s protective outer layer.
Some monitors have resin instead of an air gap, but I don’t think this is very common.
Are you sure it’s not a virus?
A virus, no way it’s a webcrawler.
I’m not a computer guy, so I never get to say this…
“It’s a bug, not a feature”:p:D
I swear at first I thought it might be russians, but if you switch to another screen and they don’t change it’s analog.
Shove a spider under the screen to eat the fly.
Compressed air in a small crevice, see if that coaxes him to move. Just don’t spray it upside down.
I’ve seen it on older monitors where there was an air gap between the display and the front glass or plastic. More modern monitors don’t tend to have that gap at all - the best-looking displays use something called ‘on-cell’ or ‘one glass’ construction, where the display is built backwards in layers from the front glass, rather than the front glass being added as an afterthought.
What I’m saying is… maybe this is the perfect excuse to treat yourself to a lovely new monitor.
I knew an old lady who tried something like that.
Did she die?
Not initially
At least gnats are understandable. I have a dead blade of grass that sits behind the glass of my speedometer display. Been sitting there for years. No idea how it got there.
Abandoned hummingbird nest?
I feel like I just got it. I think the air gap is there in newer ones too.