My first sign of fall

[Achto 27,508]

For some people the first sign of fall is leaves turning or cooler weather. Well for me it is the arrival of the pesky Asian Beetles. When the weather starts to get cooler these bugs try to find any place that they can to spend the winter. This cycle really seems to be accelerated as soon as the soybeans start coming off from the fields.

 

A pic of the side of my friends camper this afternoon.

 

[WHX?? 48,789]

Same problem here .... Only worse stink bugs and box elder bugs come with them.

I got a bug dude that comes in and sprays for powder post beatles and other boring insects in the logs.

He uses the high test chems I can't buy anymore and it really helps the other insects problems.

When I re-roofed the garage a couple years back and replaced some sheeting is was unreal the amount of  dead lady bugs that i found in the soffits. 

I also store winter clothing out in the warehouse in totes and the amount of beatles that were in there was amazing.

Nothng like a crunch crunch went you put your ice boots on!

Never noticed that it is worse after beans come off but?? 

[ebinmaine 67,287]

34 minutes ago, WHX24 said:

stink bugs

Them's what we's got here. 

 

Smells worser than I do.....

[pacer 3,168]

Sounds like what we have down here also - generally just call them 'lady bugs' cause they look so similar. Learned real quick to not just slap one with the hand ---- they smell BAD. Supposedly have a sting or bite, but I question that, Ive had many on me and nothing like that. Amazes me how so many can get into the house, what with all doors/windows shut!

 

Course then theres also what we call 'love bugs' 2 black .... bugs? that fly around in clouds hooked together in --- copulation? They can be so bad that if youre on a trip when they are active they can actually clog your radiator fins to the point of overheating. and your windshield and grille/bumper...... yuck!!

[Ed Kennell 38,024]

Stink Bugs, Lady Bugs, Cicada, and now the Spotted Lantern Fly.

[AMC RULES 37,130]

[ebinmaine 67,287]

Just now, AMC RULES said:

For as long as I can ever remember I've called those things fuzzy wooly brown bears

[Ed Kennell 38,024]

1 hour ago, AMC RULES said:

 

       Here in SC PeeAaa  that's a wooly booger weather predicter.      Woodchucks tell us when winter will end and wooly boogers predict the winter temperature.

Black is cold and brown is mild.     Looks like a cold fall a warm winter and a cold spring.    

[elcamino/wheelhorse 9,296]

I wonder if the woolly worm meeting will be held this year in PA.  My wife's hillbillie relatives in Pa. swear by woolly worms to predict  the winter.

[ebinmaine 67,287]

3 minutes ago, Ed Kennell said:

 

       Here in SC PeeAaa  that's a wooly booger weather predicter.      Woodchucks tell us when winter will end and wooly boogers predict the winter temperature.

Black is cold and brown is mild.     Looks like a cold fall a warm winter and a cold spring.    

 

I never knew until maybe a couple months ago that here in Maine in the northern sections there are woolly caterpillars that are ALL BLACK. 

Of course over the years I've heard that the longer the black sections are the colder the winter coming up is going to be.

I saw that little sucker crawling around with not one single solitary brown hair anywhere on it and I was like ... Oh man. We are -_$#@!!!!

[Ed Kennell 38,024]

Not to worry Eric. You (er Trina) got plenty of firewood and plow tractors.     

[ebinmaine 67,287]

1 minute ago, Ed Kennell said:

Not to worry Eric. You (er Trina) got plenty of firewood and plow tractors.     

I do participate to some extent in the firewood processing because I cut the trees down and then sliced them up. There's no doubt that her and or her mom do more of the work than I do because they take it from there....

 

We even have a few friends that don't have wood stoves of their own and they come over and help us out a few times a year when they can. I think that's just proof that they are psychologically challenged. 

[lynnmor 7,302]

3 hours ago, AMC RULES said:

 

You need to know that those pretty little hairs are actually needles with a toxin in them.  It is rare but some people are allergic to that toxin and I am one of them.  I had one of those suckers crawl in my shoe in the garage sending me to the emergency room with a severe allergic reaction.  My eyes swelled shut and breathing became difficult, a little longer without medical help and I would have gone into shock. 

[AMC RULES 37,130]

[WHNJ701 4,165]

58 minutes ago, lynnmor said:

 

You need to know that those pretty little hairs are actually needles with a toxin in them.  It is rare but some people are allergic to that toxin and I am one of them.  I had one of those suckers crawl in my shoe in the garage sending me to the emergency room with a severe allergic reaction.  My eyes swelled shut and breathing became difficult, a little longer without medical help and I would have gone into shock. 

Look up saddle back cataplillars, they have a really nasty sting, don't ask me how I know.  They are all over the east

[WHX?? 48,789]

Careful there Madge.... you get a reaction may have to come get that Senior! 

[Ed Kennell 38,024]

Oh no,  This all black Wooly Booger  must be lost.     Think I'll ship him North where he belongs.      UPS, USPS, or FedEx Eric ?       @ebinmaine  

[The Tuul Crib 7,336]

On 10/8/2020 at 2:22 PM, AMC RULES said:

That's a woolly bugger!!

[ebinmaine 67,287]

27 minutes ago, Ed Kennell said:

Oh no,  This all black Wooly Booger  must be lost.     Think I'll ship him North where he belongs.      UPS, USPS, or FedEx Eric ?       @ebinmaine  

I think any of those would be fine but just make sure you don't mark it FRAGILE