Monday, July 11, 2011

Something that Bugs Me



I never ever saw one of these bugs before. It introduced itself by landing on the edge of the monitor screen. Even late night tv shows have better guests drop in on them. The bug seems to fly more than it likes to crawl. For some strange reason the general shape of the bug reminded me of a stink bug, the kind, you squeeze, and true to it's reputation, let's out a foul potent odor. That's tonight's bugology lesson.

4 comments:

Kay said...

Wow! I've never seen one of those before! My son was taking some bug type course at UNM and had to classify as many bugs as he could find. I sent him a carpenter bee. This bug of yours would have been great. It's really quite pretty. I've never squeezed a stink bug so I don't know what it smells like. I'm curious.

RONW said...

Kay- two things entered my mind almost simultaneously, that some nincompoop, perhaps in my own apartment building, brought a new species of bug to the islands in his belongings, and secondly, it's a magic bug that eats household roaches, and will eradicate the all the roaches from the island.

Anonymous said...

That looks like some variation of a Box Elder Bug.

Alan

RONW said...

Alan- I didn't see your comment until now. I did a google for "Box Elder Bug," and indeed they have a very similar coat of arms marking. Never ever saw them before. New bug though cannot be good.