Oh no, it’s that time of year again…
December 20, 2013
Can you guess what this is?
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December 20th, 2013 at 3:51 pm
Your picture makes me decidedly okay with the light fixture I keep telling myself I should clean the bugs out of 😉
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December 20th, 2013 at 10:56 pm
lmao! I do mine only when I’m expecting guests…or the level of light goes down too much. 😉
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December 20th, 2013 at 3:14 pm
Lightbulb?
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December 20th, 2013 at 10:55 pm
-claps- Very close. Light bulb inside a round light fitting swarming with little bugs. 🙂
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December 20th, 2013 at 12:32 pm
Looks like bugs on a balloon, but I’m guessing it’s a light.
So… give it up. What is it?
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December 20th, 2013 at 2:08 pm
Yes! It’s a round light fitting with all these teeny, tiny bugs that explode in numbers this time of year. All my aussie blogger friends picked it straight away so I wonder if this is something unique to us?
Btw the bugs are so small they get in /through/ the flywire screens. Hate them. 😦
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December 20th, 2013 at 12:06 pm
Planet of the Bugs. Get out the spray, and the mozzie coils!
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December 20th, 2013 at 2:02 pm
Can’t use sprays so it’s out with the vacuum cleaner again. Kind of like the Little Dutch Boy sticking his finger into the hole in the dyke but… I’ve got guests coming, dammit!
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December 20th, 2013 at 11:44 am
Bugs on a light? We have light fittings that seem to encourage bugs to mass suicide too, ending up with all the bodies on the inside of the fitting.
I think part of the problem with the heat was that we had so many dull days of around the 20 mark, and then — whamo — 40 degrees! So glad I am no longer in the classroom, occupying kids on their second last day at school for the year, in 40 degrees. That would have just beeen cruel!
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December 20th, 2013 at 2:01 pm
lol – I remember those days. Nothing much happening, just watching the clock sloooooowly tick past one minute after the other. And yes, you got it in one. I wonder if this is an Aussie only phenomenon?
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December 23rd, 2013 at 4:14 pm
We don’t get them in the house — fortunately. But we do get them in Alice the Caravan. Sitting in bed with the reading light on is not fun when these annoying bugs are dropping on you or flying around. Even after you spray there is the issue of all those little bodies……
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December 23rd, 2013 at 11:39 pm
lol – I’ve had to get used to the little blighters, but yes, the cleanup isn’t pleasant.
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December 20th, 2013 at 10:52 am
Hee hee, we had that night too. There was me, all alone In front of the tv, all the doors and windows open for a slight breath of cool air with all the lights off hoping the bugs would stay outside. They glued themselves to the tv but not as badly as they have on nights when we have left a light on.
Horribly hot again today already isn’t it. Bring on the ice age I say! 😉
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December 20th, 2013 at 1:58 pm
-grin- I had a feeling you’d know. I’d literally just cleaned out the light fittings. Then I looked up and there was a cloud of those tiny bugs again. They’re so small they seem to make it through the fly wire without any trouble.
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December 20th, 2013 at 3:58 pm
And they’re bitey little buggers too!
I actually climbed up on a high stool and took a photo of them the other night to blog but couldn’t get it to work as I wanted. The kitchen light was covered and there were hundreds on the ceiling around it casting long shadows. “Don’t go into the light!” Was the first thing that came to mind. 🙂
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December 20th, 2013 at 10:58 pm
Gawd, you’re nice. My first thought was ‘where did I put the bug zapper!’. I try not to twitch every time one lands on me but I swear they make my skin crawl.
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December 21st, 2013 at 12:30 am
He he, Apparently as a child I used to get a reaction to them if they were on my clothes or sheets. My mum had to dryer everything to kill them before I could use them. Now I’ve learnt not to attract their attention! I hate them walking on me too.
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December 21st, 2013 at 8:08 am
Yuck! I wonder if I’m a bit allergic to them as well. Every year about this time I get ‘bitten’ by something. Maybe it’s as simple as a contact allergy. I noticed they weren’t around as much last night after the cool down. I think I will have to look for that bug zapper under the house. Thanks for telling me.
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December 20th, 2013 at 10:37 am
Well it looks like a ping-pong ball or some kind of an egg. Or is it a football pitch on a bald head? Gissa clue……….
xxx Massive Hugs xxx
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December 20th, 2013 at 2:09 pm
lol – not even close! It’s a light fitting [with the light on] covered in tiny flying bugs. They’re absolutely rife this time of year and seem to get in /through/ the flywire screens.
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