Definition of thunderfly in English:
thunderfly
nounPlural thunderfliesˈθʌndəflʌɪ
another term for thrips
Example sentencesExamples
- Yes, thunderflies (otherwise known as thrips, or in my family as thunderbugs) are just what you need to ruin a perfect summer day.
- Got a midget (or thunderfly OR stupid little black bugs which are everywhere when its hot) which has crawled, and died, underneath my laptop LCD screen.
- Or it could be that the electrical fields of an approaching thunderstorm do something strange to the thunderfly.
- System failures account for the biggest category of false alarms but thunderflies and dust triggering the alarm mechanisms are responsible for nearly 14% of them.
- Here come the thrips (also called thunderflies) to chew their way through a bud or five.
- Yep, I had a thunderfly under the screen of my old laptop.
- LG aftersales service is superb - I got a couple of thunderflies in mine - swapped out next day.
- Other common names for thrips include thunderflies, thunderbugs, storm flies and corn lice.
- Fruit flies and thunderflies visit here in hoards at this time of year.
- The moment you have a thunderfly or two, turn off your monitor, and use a different one for a few days.
- With the heat, windows have been open and now I see a thunderfly in my screen crawling around just waiting to die and get stuck there.
- The thunderfly is still in the monitor.
- They sound like midges to me, I've never heard of the term thunderfly being used before this thread.
- Well, I was just where those thunderflies are predominant, and gladly it's not near where I am.
- Its 52 degrees here and there's thunderflies in the garden!
- About 2 weeks ago a friend of my discovered a small thunderfly moving about inside the screen of his laptop.
- A dark cloud of thunderflies was all over me and I can't stop itching because they're so tickly.
- I just wish I knew how to clean out the odd thunderfly that gets in between the tft and the light panel behind it.
- These insects, often called thunderflies or thunderbugs, feed on plant juices from leaves or young shoots of trees and shrubs.
- Are thunderflies the little black things that are inaudible until they're half an inch from your ear, at which point they instantly sound relatively louder then a Tornado jet?