[I Are Baboon]

We are starting to see a ton of these little bastards on the outside of house. According to some quick research, it's because they are trying to find a way in for the winter. Anyone else in the northeast have any experience eradicating these things?

I guess they don't do any damage, but I don't want a million of these bugs finding their way into my house for the winter.

 

[BigMike]

Wow, the northeast must suck!

 

[robdamanii]

Chocolate coat them and feed them to the neighbors kids on Halloween?

 

[Potroast88]

 

[I Are Baboon]

Two fine ideas!!

I've read that if I just drink more beer, they'll go away. I think I'll do that.

 

[cannondalejunky]

we've got somethin like that at my house...they're kinda the same shape but they are all black with a red stripe on their back...everyday when i go out to my car they're all over my car, and then yesterday we discovered a huge pile of them in a grassy area between our house and our neighbors house

 

[Wumpus]

We get millions of these little bugs the size of gnats -- they can fit through a regular screen. Luckily, they are content to just stay on the screen, but if you accidentily tap the screen you have about hundred little bugs in the house. They should be arriving Wednesday with our first real cold front.

 

[johnbryanpeters]

Quit worrying. You'll have more cluster flies than seed bugs. Never saw them until a couple of years ago, now they're common.

 

[I Are Baboon]

Quit worrying. You'll have more cluster flies than seed bugs. Never saw them until a couple of years ago, now they're common.

Yeah, well RIGHT NOW I've got seed bugs, not cluster flies. I'll worry about the latter later. Focus, people.

 

[dG video]

Aren't those called "Kissing Bugs"

At night they bite your lip or something and give you an infection.

 

[Tame Ape]

get a cat!

 

[blue]

Holy crap, that's what those are! We had one sneak into the apartment and scare Caitlin...much entertainment was had.

Then at work one decided to take a bath in some soup. I rescued him, dumped out the soup, put him in a cup with some bread and lettuce and named him Willis. Then I set him free at the end of the day. Little bastard.

 

[robdamanii]

Holy crap, that's what those are! We had one sneak into the apartment and scare Caitlin...much entertainment was had.

Then at work one decided to take a bath in some soup. I rescued him, dumped out the soup, put him in a cup with some bread and lettuce and named him Willis. Then I set him free at the end of the day. Little bastard.

Naming bugs "willis" and shaving your legs? What's next for you, fairy boy?

 

[MMcG]

I don't think we get those cluster flies in CT - but in VT they are everywhere. Flies suck.

 

[robdamanii]

WTH are cluster flies?

 

[BurlyShirley]

Have a ton of those things around my place feasting on honeysuckle berries. Pretty harmless, but could be annoying in the house. Just go smash them. Get some RAID.

 

[blue]

Naming bugs "willis" and shaving your legs? What's next for you, fairy boy?

Caitlin drowned the one in the apt in Ant Killer.

I cried myself to sleep that night.

 

[robdamanii]

Caitlin drowned the one in the apt in Ant Killer.

I cried myself to sleep that night.

I don't know who's a bugger pvssy: TO or you.

 

[eaterofdog]

Aren't those called "Kissing Bugs"

At night they bite your lip or something and give you an infection.

Chagas bugs. Nasty.

 

[dan wask]

I just smash them.

 

[robdamanii]

Chagas bugs. Nasty.

I think the sucking of the blood doesn't do anything. If I remember, the tickle of them on your lip causes you to smash them on your lip, which grinds the feces into your lips. Trypanosoma cruzi or brucei, i can't remember which one of those is Chagas.

Either way, nasty stuff.

 

[johnbryanpeters]

WTH are cluster flies?

Cluster flies look like houseflies but I guess they're somehow different to fly afficionados. In the fall they try to hide out in houses and are generally annoying. In the spring they wake up and try to figure out how to exit, usually unsuccessfully.

BS, you should huff the Raid. I hear it's real good as for RAID, do you prefer 1 or 5?

 

[Westy]

This time every year I get invaded by ladybugs looking for a place to hibernate. They seem cute until you find swarms of them in the blinds.

 

[robdamanii]

Cluster flies look like houseflies but I guess they're somehow different to fly afficionados. In the fall they try to hide out in houses and are generally annoying. In the spring they wake up and try to figure out how to exit, usually unsuccessfully.

BS, you should huff the Raid. I hear it's real good as for RAID, do you prefer 1 or 5?

Sounds annoying. All I can say is I'm thankful that the cold weather is setting in. I got damned tired of zapping hornet nests in my eves all summer. And one of the bastards was full of white faces.

 

[johnbryanpeters]

Why not just leave the hornets and wasps alone? Even the whitefaces will leave you alone, treated with respect. Or is it that you enjoy poisoning yourself?

 

[Westy]

The only bugs I go out of my way to kill are freaking yellow jackets. Every year those little ****ers sting the hell out of me. I take great satisfaction in irradicating yellow jacket nests. Garden hose works best to drown them out, although I just got a pressure washer and look forward to unleashing that upon them.

 

[BurlyShirley]

The only bugs I go out of my way to kill are freaking yellow jackets. Every year those little ****ers sting the hell out of me. I take great satisfaction in irradicating yellow jacket nests. Garden hose works best to drown them out, although I just got a pressure washer and look forward to unleashing that upon them.

Yeah. I hate them. I have a feeling that global warming has somehow allowed them to breed two generations per season now, and theres twice as many. They got the dog and the cat this year. They payed.

 

[Westy]

Yeah. I hate them. I have a feeling that global warming has somehow allowed them to breed two generations per season now, and theres twice as many. They got the dog and the cat this year. They payed.

I always find them mowing the lawn. A few get chewed up by the mower and when one of the fuggers die they release a pheramone that makes the others attack, I get caught in the crossfire.

 

[BurlyShirley]

I always find them mowing the lawn. A few get chewed up by the mower and when one of the fuggers die they release a pheramone that makes the others attack, I get caught in the crossfire.

The vet bill released my 'kill' pheramone. The cat swelled up like a bratwurst

 

[robdamanii]

Why not just leave the hornets and wasps alone? Even the whitefaces will leave you alone, treated with respect. Or is it that you enjoy poisoning yourself?

They happened to be hanging above my windows and coming in under my screens. The whiteface bastards were hanging over my front door...and that creeps me the hell out having to walk under that nest 3 times a day.

The hornets also got inside and stung one of the cats a few times. They had to pay for it.

 

[syadasti]

AKA Stink Bugs

 

[tequiladougrox]

AKA Stink Bugs

If you don't touch 'em they don't stink. Anyway the stink is not that bad; its kinda' purty smellin'

 

[valve bouncer]

Agent Orange. As a bonus it'll flush out any terrorists in the neighbourhood.

 

[blue]

Agent Orange. As a bonus it'll flush out any terrorists in the neighbourhood.

Napalm work?

 

[DHCorky]

Gasoline always worked well for yellow jackets and their nests in the ground. Pour some in the hole wait a minute then through a match and watch the suckers burn.

 

[biggins]

Gasoline always worked well for yellow jackets and their nests in the ground. Pour some in the hole wait a minute then through a match and watch the suckers burn.

thats what we always did...burn the little assholes alive....better them than me is what i say.

 

[Kntr]

We call them Stink Bugs and we have them everywhere here too. The will make a hiss sound and man do the stink.