Tiny bugs getting thru screen
 

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Whenever I leave the window open with the screen, tiny gnats, or
whatever they are called, go right thru the screen, and drive me nuts,
Right now there are about 100 of them swarming around me. I have the
smallest standard window screen I could find. This is the plastic
type. I even put duct tape all the way around the screen frame to the
window frame, so none of them can sneak in around any gaps. There are
no holes in the screen. How can I stop this? I can not find any
screen with smaller holes.

Thanks

Mark

close the window.

On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 14:53:29 -0500, wrote:

Whenever I leave the window open with the screen, tiny gnats, or
whatever they are called, go right thru the screen, and drive me nuts,
Right now there are about 100 of them swarming around me. I have the
smallest standard window screen I could find. This is the plastic
type. I even put duct tape all the way around the screen frame to the
window frame, so none of them can sneak in around any gaps. There are
no holes in the screen. How can I stop this? I can not find any
screen with smaller holes.

Thanks

Mark
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Look in the yellow pages under windows or screens, call a couple of
places and see if they sell a smaller mesh screen.

wrote:
Whenever I leave the window open with the screen, tiny gnats, or
whatever they are called, go right thru the screen, and drive me
nuts, Right now there are about 100 of them swarming around me. I
have the smallest standard window screen I could find. This is the
plastic type. I even put duct tape all the way around the screen
frame to the window frame, so none of them can sneak in around any
gaps. There are no holes in the screen. How can I stop this? I
can not find any screen with smaller holes.

Turn off the light.

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"Charles Spitzer" wrote in message
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wrote in message
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Whenever I leave the window open with the screen, tiny gnats, or
whatever they are called, go right thru the screen, and drive me nuts,
Right now there are about 100 of them swarming around me. I have the
smallest standard window screen I could find. This is the plastic
type. I even put duct tape all the way around the screen frame to the
window frame, so none of them can sneak in around any gaps. There are
no holes in the screen. How can I stop this? I can not find any
screen with smaller holes.

Thanks

Mark

close the window.

turn on a/c (if you have it), grab shop vac, and suck the little buggers out
of the air. In daylight, they will gather around a window, and at night,
around lights.

aem sends....

Abe wrote:
On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 14:53:29 -0500, wrote:


Whenever I leave the window open with the screen, tiny gnats, or
whatever they are called, go right thru the screen, and drive me nuts,
Right now there are about 100 of them swarming around me. I have the
smallest standard window screen I could find. This is the plastic
type. I even put duct tape all the way around the screen frame to the
window frame, so none of them can sneak in around any gaps. There are
no holes in the screen. How can I stop this? I can not find any
screen with smaller holes.

Thanks

Mark

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Look in the yellow pages under windows or screens, call a couple of
places and see if they sell a smaller mesh screen.

Spray the screen with a bug repellant. Works for me. The "no-see-im's"
won't go near it.

"Chuck B." writes:
Spray the screen with a bug repellant. Works for me. The "no-see-im's"
won't go near it.

If you don't like the stink/chemicals, I would suggest a couple things:
1: decrease the mesh size of your existing screens by spraying with
paint/shellac/etc. Multiple light coats should decrease the screen
size without clogging the holes. Shellac has an advantage of being
easilly removable if you don't like the results.

You can likely use a "pump" style hair spray bottle if you don't
have a sprayer. (I've heard some hair sprays *are* thinned shellac.)
Look for one containing denature alcohol in the ingredients.

2: introduce a positive pressure inside the house that the bugs will
have to fight to get through the screen. the trick here is that
that source will need to be filtered.
Box fan with a furnace screen over the intake should work.

good luck.

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