by "Highlander-Datsuns are Forever" (jamesbowland)
Published 02/25/2017 at 23:06
by "Highlander-Datsuns are Forever" (jamesbowland)
Published 02/25/2017 at 23:06
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Common throughout the US where evergreen trees are present I give you the bane of my existence. The western conifer seed bug. They release a very foul odor when disturbed or squished.
"Audio Tachometer" (audiotachometer)
02/25/2017 at 23:10, STARS: 2
A metric ton of them last year.
"TheHondaBro" (wwaveform)
02/25/2017 at 23:12, STARS: 3
Clearly you’ve never experienced an infestation of June bugs.
"Highlander-Datsuns are Forever" (jamesbowland)
02/25/2017 at 23:13, STARS: 0
Bettle porn?
"FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com" (alphaass)
02/25/2017 at 23:22, STARS: 8
One of these fuckers flew into my car last year, managed to not completely die when I smacked it with a book at a red light, then proceeded to limp up behind the glovebox and into the blower housing and die there. The next week sucked.
"DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time" (dc3ls-)
02/25/2017 at 23:23, STARS: 0
Nope, stinkbugs are way worse than June bugs.
"wafflesnfalafel" (wafflesnfalafel1)
02/25/2017 at 23:25, STARS: 0
interesting - didn’t know that’s what those were. A couple years ago we had one, just one, everyday end up in our shower. I’d “dispose” of it and it smelled weird. Haven’t seen any since then, (but we have had some pretty heavy frosts the last couple years..)
"Urambo Tauro" (urambotauro)
02/25/2017 at 23:35, STARS: 0
I don’t know if I’ve become numb to the smell or what, but somewhere along the line I realized that their odor smells like apples. Well, maybe not literal apples , but it reminds me of “green/sour apple” artificial flavoring.
"AestheticsInMotion" (aestheticsinmotion)
02/26/2017 at 00:08, STARS: 1
I’ve wondered what those things were called for years. Always see tons at work
"Pyrochazm" (pyrochazm)
02/26/2017 at 01:42, STARS: 0
Apparently they have a different smell depending on the local predators.
Around here they smell like sour apples. It’s really not that bad.
"Zibodiz" (zibodiz1)
02/26/2017 at 02:09, STARS: 2
That is so weird. I see them all the time; they show up in our house out of nowhere. They’re super docile, you just set something in front of them and they crawl onto it, then you chuck them out the door, kinda like a bigger, slower, browner Box Elder beetle. I’ve never smelled anything... or maybe I just can’t smell them or something lol.
"TheRealBicycleBuck" (therealbicyclebuck)
02/26/2017 at 07:19, STARS: 1
Hemiptera. True bugs. One of the defining features is a long, sharp proboscis used for piercing and sucking the contents out of whatever they pierced. Some, like the stink bug, do this to plants. Others, like the assassin bug, do this to other insects. A few, like the kissing bug and the bed bug, do this to us.
All can use their proboscis to deliver a painful defensive bite (stab?), a fact I learned the hard way. One crawled into my cot at camp and I made the mistake of rolling onto it in my sleep. There’s nothing quite like one of these little buggers waking you up. It was like someone had tossed a hot coal onto my back.
At least the ones that normally prey on us use a much smaller proboscis and inject an anesthetic so we are less likely to wake up and squash them.
"RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars" (rallydarkstrike)
02/26/2017 at 07:30, STARS: 2
Completely the same story here for me! We find them all the time in the spring and summer and it’s even been warm enough here for the last week that some are out now. They are super calm....can fly, but I’ve NEVER even had one even try to fly away from me when disturbing it. They just sortof wallow along minding their own business.
I’ve never had one ‘spray’ it’s scent either other than once. I was poking at one with my finger to get it to move onto a piece of paper so I could dump it outside (I won’t kill them if I don’t have too.....I’m no eco-nutbar or anything, but they are just living their lives and I am just living mine). In my experience, it only ‘sprayed’ it’s scent on me when I poked near it’s back end where the gland is. Really didn’t smell that bad at all unless I put my finger where it got me right up to my nose, but it did sting....I wonder if it is an acid of some sort?
"Highlander-Datsuns are Forever" (jamesbowland)
02/26/2017 at 17:03, STARS: 1
There are times in the fall when we are doing catch and release about 20 to 3p bugs per day.
"Highlander-Datsuns are Forever" (jamesbowland)
02/26/2017 at 17:03, STARS: 1
These ones are rank! You do not want them to spray.
"Highlander-Datsuns are Forever" (jamesbowland)
02/26/2017 at 17:04, STARS: 1
I’ve had them in my socks, crawling on my leg, they give no fucks.
"Eric @ opposite-lock.com" (theyrerolling)
02/27/2017 at 22:14, STARS: 0
Do we get those up here?
Down in Los Angeles, on nights when they were out in force, we’d go out under a street lamp with a big plastic bat and just go nuts killing many hundreds of these beasts. You’d hear them coming, see as they enter the light, then whack them as hard as you could. You’d come back coated in bug guts, too. Pretty nasty.
They weren’t all the same species, either, we had some that looked like this:
And some of these:
But mostly those ugly brown ones you posted.