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I hate the brown marmorated stink bug
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Nov 24, 2009 02:36PM
I never remember seeing these bugs until last year. I found out they are Chinese bugs that showed up in Allentown, PA., apparently in 1998. Suddenly this year they're all over the place in my house and my office. I think they're harmless but they watch me (Quit looking at me but! What do you want!?) and fly up at me. They fly like drunkards drive. I have no idea if they're coming right at me or what. It freaks me out.
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They're Japanese! They were EVERYWHERE in my dorm room last year. They're totally harmless, so you don't need to worry about them. They are a bit annoying, though.
I think that's a Japanese Beetle. I mean these:
Thanks. I just wanted a visual.
Do you get these? I read that a separate group of them is spreading out in the PNW.
Yeah, but I haven't seen them in my new place. Once it gets cold here (and it already is,) it's not too buggy at all.
These guys come in when it gets coldish. The are looking for a place to winter over, the drunkards, and I guess my place looks nice and cozy. I've got one camped out in my bathroom right now who gazes at me as I brush my teeth.
My old house was so buggy, but it was really old and had all these secret passageways for bugs. And also the house was completely surrounded by large bushes. So far, this place is bug free! I haven't even seen one spider! (knock on wood) I did think briefly that I had mice, but it turned out to be tea leaves and not mouse droppings, thank goodness.
Yeah! Anti-Marmoration Alliance!!
Gretchen, don't worry, when the cicadas come (is it next year, or the one after?) you'll forget all about those stink bugs.And what's all this about bugs watching you people in your houses? Why are they not dead once you spot them?
I didn't know if I'd like apartment living, but living on the eleventh floor has its advantages - I haven't seen more than three or four bugs in the two years I've been here.
Rusty, it's not dead because if I fuck with it, I will invoke the stink. Hence the name, see? I remember some bugs when I was a kid and lived in Germany that we called stink bugs. Not sure if they were the same but I remember their stink vividly and I'm not interested in comparing.Also, they are kinda big and, as mentioned above, drunkardly in their unpredictable lumbering flight patterns. What if I zig when I shoulda zagged and it pokes me with it's piercing sucker-type mouthpart thingys?
You seem to have a lot of bug problems... I suggest cleaning every once and while.
Rusty, it's not dead because if I fuck with it, I will invoke the stink.Gretchen, there is something you need to understand – there is the right way of doing things, and the wrong way of doing things. There is also the Rusty way of doing things. This is similar to the wrong way, except it’s a lot faster, and maybe there’s some Johnny Cash or Linkin Park playing in the background. Anyway, my “OCD” as some call it, does not allow for co-habitating with insects. Despite the consequences, I would be compelled to destroy and/or deport those sons-o-bitches from the United States of Rusty’s House.
And I'm glad to hear that you're not the kind of hippie that refuses to kill bugs.
I don't kill bugs. And my students are not allowed to kill bugs that show up in my class; we always "rescue" them. But today when I was reading a story about a head louse, we were talking about lice and the kids said, "Would you kill lice, Miss Montambo?" and I had to admit that I would burn those fuckers. (I used different words, though.)
They wouldn't even ask such a thing. They know I ♥ them.
You know it. Deader than a virus after antibiotics have been administered for the full treatment cycle.
I'm only HALF drunk. (it took me 3 times to spell drunk)
I would never punch an octopus.
I'm drunk a little. I never drink alone. It's a special occasion. Plus, I'm not alone because you're here asking me stuff.
I would never punch an octopus. Did you know they have the intellect of a domestic cat?!
I'm drunk a little. I never drink alone. It's a special occasion. Plus, I'm not alone because you're here asking me stuff.
I would never punch an octopus. Did you know they have the intellect of a domestic cat?!
You're shitting me! (you weren't asking me were you?) But still! That's amazing!
Oh, I see. I've had too much wine for subtlety.
Oh, Gretchen!
We wish we could drink wine together. But we can only whine together.
We wish we could drink wine together. But we can only whine together.
are you drinking wine? because I don't have any.
Viu Manent Malbec. It's good.
The octopus' intelligence is quite strange considering it's an invertebrate. However, it's can learn through observation, mimic behavior, and can tease and be playful, hiding things from its captors in play! It is incredible, actually. They are quite deceitful with both prey and predators. I'm drunk, though, so this might not be making sense.
Also, I love the word "cephalopod."
The octopus' intelligence is quite strange considering it's an invertebrate. However, it's can learn through observation, mimic behavior, and can tease and be playful, hiding things from its captors in play! It is incredible, actually. They are quite deceitful with both prey and predators. I'm drunk, though, so this might not be making sense.
Also, I love the word "cephalopod."
That's a great word, yes. But you gotta be fucking kidding me about the rest!
If an octopus has the intellect of a domestic cat, does a domestic octopus have the intellect of a wild cat, or more or less or is the formula yet more complicated?My favorit word of today: Zylinderkopfdichtung (f., -en, tech.)
Germans! You people just string together a bunch of words and call it a new word. cephalopodbeakfucker.
That might be right for the Donauschifffahrtskapitänsmütze but not for my beloved Zylinderkopfdichtung, a useful, solid and beautiful word, as old as Gottfreid Daimler himself. 
Or Porshe's Doppelkupplungsgetriebe... Sigh, those Germans and their cars.
Gretchen wrote: "Do you get these? I read that a separate group of them is spreading out in the PNW."We had them all the time growing up in North Idaho. I hate them. When they are squished they smell like moldy cherry flavoring, which has turned me off to all artificial cherry flavors forever. This is probably for the best. Still, I hate them and wish that I could kill them all. Some entomologist needs to tell me what purpose they serve before I begin developing tools for the inevitable stink bug extinction.
I've heard the entomologists recommend a vacuum cleaner with a closed bag system. (!!) Seriously? That's the best you can come up with? Apparently you shouldn't fumigate because their dead carcasses in your attic will attract carpet beetles which are even harder to get rid of! And if you squish them, the scent attracts more of them.
that sounds made up to me...
We don't have these problems in Alaska... The stink bugs fear the Palin... and it is too cold.but feel free to stop by, I'll gladly share my booze and swine.
I'm at work. WORKING. typing away. I go to write down a note and what do you think I saw, peering at me over the edge of my notebook?!?!WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU WANT, BROWN MARMORATED STINK BUG?!?! WHAT!?!?!?
Have you ever seen Donny Darko? He has a bunny that followed him around. Maybe you should go see a doctor. one that will prescribe you ambien and anti psychotics.
