I have decided I should complain less about the near total lack of sun on our morning walks. After all, I could live in Barrow, where the sun won’t be seen again until late January.
Date: November 21, 2016
Location: Home
Length: 1.3 Miles
Who: Sarah
And now, Schooner’s yesterday in fast forward – watch for the box elder bug on the left, just before the 15 second mark.
Travels with Choppy 
A 6-legged intruder, caught on security cam!
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Better than a two-legged one in most cases!
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Yes the bug video bombed you!
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I saw one this morning on the camera – literally, on it. It was very blurry.
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Maybe that’s what Schooner was chasing when he knocked over the camera 😊
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Maybe!
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Clearly Schooner doesn’t believe it’s his job to play exterminator. LOL
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Oh, he does – we’re just infested with these things. Thankfully, they are harmless, but they are quite annoying. I have no idea where they all come from!
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His day doesn’t vary much, does it?! And no self respecting cat should have left that bug in challenged – our #1 cat would have swatted it and eaten it within seconds. #2 would have made a pathetic attempt, failed, then pretended she’d never been interested anyway.
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He goes after them a lot – we’ve just got so many, even he gets tired of them after a while!
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Nice cockroach crawling on the counter top.
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Ha! Not a cockroach – it’s a box elder bug. They are everywhere in late fall here (seriously, outside, we have thousands of them). Here’s a bit about them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxelder_bug
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I’ve never heard of them. Wow, it’s good you only had one inside if they are all over the place outside.
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Oh, there are plenty inside as well – though if they are inside, they are likely to meet a quick end as soon as one of us finds them!
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Wake up for 5 minutes and eat the bug, S!!
Love and licks,
Cupcake
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He was probably stuffed from eating hundreds of them already – they come out here in fall in the thousands (or tens of thousands – we aren’t counting!).
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Ironically, the box elders don’t bother me now, since there is a new bug on the block… The brown stink bugs have been infiltrating my bathroom fan! There’s not a morning that I don’t turn on the fan and hear a few hit the blades… let alone having to herd some into a cup for exile. OMG they smell bad in numbers. Are you finding these guys by you? I’ve never seen them here before this year… they are bad for plants also. I’m sad and my nose had been assaulted! 😷
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Your fan must exit to the outdoors. You could try putting a piece of (not used) window screen over it. Duct tape would help secure it.
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We’ve had a screen up there. Those little buggars are coming in through the attic and into the fan assembly directly. We took it apart last night and ‘Great foamed’ the area… Fingers crossed that will finish them. When we took the fan down, about 20 of them fell out! OMG Stinky!!
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Eewww. It was just a suggestion. I hope your solution helps!
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Ugh!! I am worried we will soon be infested and I will miss the days of the box elder bugs!
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I pray you won’t experience them. They are bad for our plants also. This would mean they are spreading 😣
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I’m thinking we’ll have a lot of them, sooner rather than later.
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We have them here, too! I had never seen one until Paul showed them to me in Pennsylvania a couple years ago. We’ve seen a half dozen or so just this year (never before). So far, I have yet to smell them (an attempt by Paul failed, as his hand smelled like soap to me when he said it smelled like stink bug).
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