What kind of bug is this?

[Tomorrow]

How about this one guys. I have no idea what it is but have a few of them in the house usually around a window. It looks like the kissing bug or assassin bug that is in my sons bug book, but I think we are a little too far north for one of those. Take a look

Those are really common in the northwest. They're related to boxelder beetles...true bugs. They're called Western Conifer Seed Bugs or Red Striped Beetles (pretty creative, eh?!). (I hate these things as they get more of my tomatoes than I do every year. I've been told by an entomologist that they don't eat tomatoes...right! ) Their pupae are really shiney shiney black half-ladybug sized and looking critters. Did I mention that I hate them?

 

[Tomorrow]

I... NEED... a rodenator.... but for $1,890 I think I'd just get me a nice BB gun & bait and sit out back with some iced tea.

Personally, I'd opt for a .22 and a lemonade....or alternately, a long cable and one of those cheap X-subs that Buckeyefan1 was touting last year...the amp hum would just drive the evil moles to the next block.

 

[jeffsg4mac]

Those are really common in the northwest. They're related to boxelder beetles...true bugs. They're called Western Conifer Seed Bugs or Red Striped Beetles (pretty creative, eh?!). (I hate these things as they get more of my tomatoes than I do every year. I've been told by an entomologist that they don't eat tomatoes...right! ) Their pupae are really shiney shiney black half-ladybug sized and looking critters. Did I mention that I hate them?

Ahh COOL, That must be it. I guess the difference with the ones up here in NE is that they talk with a funny accent

http://www.ipm.iastate.edu/ipm/iiin/node/110

 

[Sheep]

Ahh COOL, That must be it. I guess the difference with the ones up here in NE is that they talk with a funny accent

http://www.ipm.iastate.edu/ipm/iiin/node/110

We get those too. I had one in my shirt when I put it on... not fun.

Careful though, when you kill those, they let off a smell. The best way to kill them is drowning. No smell, and it's like a bloody head on a fence post for the rest of them.

SheepStar

 

[The Dukester]

Careful though, when you kill those, they let off a smell.

SheepStar

That's why they call 'em stink bugs down here in SC.

Hey, Clint; whatcha say we go halves on one of them Rodentators? I'll let you be the guinea pig and try it first If you don't blow yourself up, you can ship it up here to me.

The X sub sounds like fun, too!

 

[hemiram]

Hey, Hemiram, can I borrow your dog for a few months? I probably have 200 moles in my yard that he can hunt till his heart is content. Of course my yard would most likely look like an exploded mine field, but at least the moles would be gone

He would love it, but he gets so absorbed in his work that he wouldn't eat or come in to get out of the rain or cold. He would tear your yard up big time though. We have termites here and they would work as a food source for him, if you have them, since he gobbles those up like popcorn. Yummmm.

Yeck.

 

[hemiram]

That's why they call 'em stink bugs down here in SC.

Hey, Clint; whatcha say we go halves on one of them Rodentators? I'll let you be the guinea pig and try it first If you don't blow yourself up, you can ship it up here to me.

The X sub sounds like fun, too!

I'll rent you guys King for a grand for a month, and we both win out, and King gets a vacaction out of it. If you have a wussy dog he can play head games with, he probably wouldn't want to come back. He loves to mess with dog's heads. After all, he is known at the local dog training place as the "The Evil Genius", and "Mr. Uncooperative".

 

[The Dukester]

I'll rent you guys King for a grand for a month

Sounds good to me. That's a deal considering the rodenator is almost twice that!

 

[hemiram]

Sounds good to me. That's a deal considering the rodenator is almost twice that!

Yeah, but you would have to put up with all his "stuff" that makes most people want him gone right away. The head games with other dogs, herding and tormenting cats or people if there are no dogs around, the refusal to go out, or come in, the demanding to be petted or hugged, the refusal to eat, or stealing the food off your plate, like he did with my Catfish last night. He doesn't do it very often, but I walked out to get my tea I had left out in the kitchen, and when I came back he had just finished up the last third of my fish, and was cleaning the plate. "Hey!!" I yelled, and he jumped like I tried to shoot him, and he was miserable for the next hour, until I left for work. He wanted me to forgive him, and I did before I left, but I made him wait for a while, and he really is miserable if he thinks I'm upset with him. If anyone doubts that Dogs love someone, they haven't seen King and his favorite people, me being at the top of the list.

To me, he's a once in a lifetime dog, so amusing it overrides the annoying things he does, but to most other people, he's just a PITA. To dogs, he's some sort of insanely happy tormenter, who enjoys making them miserable any way he can. And on top of it all, he just doesn't seem to ever tire out.

 

[Audioholics]

Say hello to my little friend... I want to keep this guy around to kill rodents and such under our house. I believe it's a black snake.

 

[Tom Andry]

I agree. The color of that snake is black.