Bugs still getting in thru Screen

[dadiOH]

[Mortimer Schnerd, RN]

Go to your room.

[Lar]

In article , [e-mail] says... :) I would specifically try Permethrin - It should last a long time. :) Permethrin is on lower end of the pyrethroid group on insecticides...it breaks down quickly.

[George E. Cawthon]

You are not going to get those gnats through a regular screen if it is tight in the frame. Most likely the gnats are hatching inside the house. We have a similar problem with gnats. They hatch in potted plant soil, they hide in the window slides. However, there is no evidence that they come in from outside, except in the soil of potted plants.

If you are sure that the screens are tight, the vacuum everything and either spray the plants with a bug killer or get rid of them. If by chance, you don't have any potted plants, then the bugs may be getting in on pets or humans.

[George E. Cawthon]

That is hardly true, unless you are standing in a desert at high noon in the middle of summer. Arizona is a big state and there are plenty of moths and flies in some parts, but certainly not like humid areas such as the mid-west and east..

[2_Biz_E]

True..and the more golf courses they build the more humidity and bugs. There is no getting away from the pesty flies...even in the Desert. (maybe even worse.) At least from my experience living(nearby)Cochella one year in a tent.

2_bized

[maradcliff]

I am sitting in front of that window right now. There is a fan turned on at the other end of the house. The outer side of the screen is covered with those bugs. There are probably 50 of them coming thru the screen every minute and are flying in my face. I can see them coming thru the screen. As I said in my original post, I put duct tape around the whole aluminum screen frame. They are tiny nearly white bugs with tiny legs. They are all over the wall, and I just looked at one with a magnifying glass. They only come in at night. The ceiling light fixture glass is half filled with them since I emptied it 2 or 3 weeks ago. So, yes, they DO come right thru the screen.

[mike]

Eat the bugs.

[Rudy]

There are plenty of gnats, flies, butterflies, moths, bees and wasps in Tucson AZ. Just depends on what time of year it is.

Also, there is plenty of water in monsoon season which is just about to begin.

R

[CL (dnoyeB) Gilbert]

ROFL, this is too funny. But I have the same problem, glad to see im not alone. I basically have 2 windows in my computer room. Computer generates HEAT too and its a pain.

Open during the day is fine, but at night with the room lights on I have to shut the windows. I put an exhaust fan in one window and close the other. So its blowing out, and I open a window in a part of the house away from the trees, and that has no light on in that room.

Oh, and I turn on the A/C.

[No]

I suppose 'long' is relative. I would suspect it would last 2 or 3 weeks. Something like Off or Yardguard will only last hours.

I do not know what "pyrethroid group " is but woudln't you agree ths is on the right track?

[Dan_Musicant]

:I just replaced the screen on my office window. This time of year I :can not be online without the window open (I refuse to pay the :electric for an AC). Anyhow, the old screen had a small hole and tiny :flying bugs were getting in. I bought that plastic screen which :seemed to have the smallest holes. These damn bugs are still getting :in. They fly in my face and are totally irritating. I even put duct :tape around the edge of the screen frame where it meets the window :frame, which seemed to fit tight anyhow, but I am desprate. How in :the hell does one keep them out of the house? This is really starting :to piss me off. (They are very small flys or gnats, or something). : :Mark

You evidently have to use a smaller mesh screen. Experiment one window at a time. Put a screen material over your window temporarily and close all other access. If they are still getting in, go to a smaller mesh until you find one tight enough and go with that. Of course, metal will last longer than plastic but costs more.

[Lar]

In article , [e-mail] says... :) I suppose 'long' is relative. I would suspect it would last 2 or 3 weeks. :) Something like Off or Yardguard will only last hours. :) :) I do not know what "pyrethroid group " is but woudln't you agree ths is on :) the right track? :) :) :) Pyrethrin is a natural insecticide that does not have a long residual to it..."pyrethroid group" of insecticides are man made that mimic the natural molecule but are more stable and so have a residual effect to them. There are a number of them on the market where some only last for a short period of time and others may work well for months Pyrethroids can be recognised with the name ending in -thrin ....permethrin is a step above the natural and I would be surprised if you would get more than a day or two of effectiveness in the exposed outdoors...maybe a week or so inside.

[maradcliff]

I am using the smallest screen I can find. However, I do know what would work if I could find some. Nylon stockings like women wear. The problem is where to find stockings big enough to put over a screen. Does anyone have a wife that sews? I am wondering if the raw nylon material is available to buy, and where?

Mark

[maradcliff]

At least I know I am not alone with this. I live on a farm so it's probably worse than in the city. I also have a creek nearby, whether or not that has anything to do with it. I have horses near the house and they get what I call "poop bugs". Little flying insects that hang around the poop in large numbers (I dont know the actual name of them). But the screen bugs are not the same and the "poop bugs" are small but too big to enter the screen.

Maybe I need to change the fan around, but the windows in this room are too small for a box window fan........ Always a problem !!!!

Mark

Mark

[Rick]

Take a look at some landscaping fabric cloth. I can't remember how fine a mesh that is offhand...

[Duane Bozarth]

Almost certainly such are not light-driven and very small insects aren't affected by the "zappers" as they're not large enough to short across the adjacent electrodes. A "sucker" type have a small effect, but probably not observable in level of nuisance.

imo, ymmv, $0.02, etc., ...

[wkearney99]

OK, how about attacking it from another angle? How about killing the bugs instead? Perhaps a bug zapper somewhere else nearby would help draw them away from the house window? Even if it means leaving a light on out there to draw them.

[maradcliff]

I solved the problem. I was at Walmart when I went into the fabric dept. I asked the clerk for nylon stocking type material. They sell something very similar, it's cheap, and works great. The woman at the counter told me it's better than stockings, because it wont run like stockings do.

I just wrapped it around the screen frame. put a little duct tape in the corners and put the screen back in the window.

Problem solved..... goodbye ennoying bugs......

[Peter Principle]

[e-mail] wrote in news: [e-mail]:

Face it, gaylord. You're prancing around in a pair of stockings right now.