[MLUG - DISCUSSION] Debugging My Office (totally off-topic)

["Ross, Matt" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I've got a serious problem with the plants around the office.  Despite a
thorough spraying of insecticides by the primary plant owner here, we've got
a swarm of little bugs that look like grey sweat bees.  I've never been
stung or bitten by them, but they're annoying and they get into things (eg:
my keyboard - blame all my typos on that bug, btw ;-).  I thought about
getting a venus fly trap, a pitcher plant, or some other carnivorous herb.
The problem I forsee with that is that the scents put out by these plants to
attract their prey might actually encourage more bugs to come into the
building.  Anyone know if that's the case?

For a gage on how bad these bugs have gotten, I kill about 7 an hour on
average, and I'm 4 desks down from the plants.  

They are worse in the morning, and behave a lot like gnats, except that
their body is segmented like a bee's, and has a greyscale version of they
yellow and brown pattern you see on sweatbees.  The wings are fixed to the
middle segment, and both it and the head are squished by the time I can get
one to slow down enough to look at, so I don't know details.

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                Matthew W. Ross
                 DED MIS Temp
                Phone: 522-6284
        E-Mail: EMAIL:PROTECTED
               Network: DD05908
         Graduate of LU, May 11, 2002
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