Bug walking around inside my monitor

When I first told my son, he thought I was referring to some type of s/w bug. Then I showed him a small gnat-sized insect roaming around the monitor behind the layer that the image is projected onto. I don't know much about the LCD technology or design, but I doubt insects have much to do with it.
Has anyone else seen or heard of a similar experience with the iMac monitors?
iMac 20"/2.16 GHz/2GB/250 GB HD Mac OS X (10.4.10)

I recently had a small insect on my screen. I thought it was on the outside of the screen, so smushed it. It was smushed inside the layers and now I have an ugly spot on my monitor. I took it to the local Apple store where I have a ProCare membership and had them perform an annual checkup, specifically mentioning the spot. They gave it back the next day saying they couldn't do anything about it. Believe me, I don't keep any food or any thing which would attract them any where near my computer - I'm very reverent about that. So what can I do? I'm about to take the 'puter apart and see if I can blow it out. Think the Apple guys gave up too soon. This spot on my bright screen sticks out like a sore thumb!!! Anyone taken theirs apart to try something like this?
iMac G-5 Mac OS X (10.4.10) 20" Monitor

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Bug walking around inside monitor

Don't know what to say about this. Looks like a gnat walking around inside. Can't take a screen shot of it. Hopefully it will fall to the bottom when it dies.

Toraliens wrote:
My brand new iMac came with a Hair between the Glass and the LCD on the left down corner, I took to apple store and they clean it.
Apple quality control is not that good nowadays, I heard several issues about this iMac27, and at least was not a dead pixel.
A random hair and what you read on these forums isn't NOT indicative of the millions of machines Apple sells.

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I really can't live with this bug, even if it dies it will probably just stay there.
And I thought it was air-tight.

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Its NOT a good idea to walk around with you Apple MB running IF you're walking down the halls of the Microsoft Campus. Hey, its not safe to drink coffee while using your MB also IF you are going to turn the cup upside down while it's over the keyboard.
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Life's too short to never take a teeny step out on the edge.
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I make 3d models with away3d and import them into flash builder.
I can rotate the models like this:
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