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tpham2006

15-10-2005 10:13:51

I don't know if any of you got this problems, but I live in Minneapolis, MN and yesterday, I came home from school and the whole damn road was filled with flyings bugs.

I don't know what they are, but they are nasty as hell. It looked like a lady bug because of orange colors, but when they arent flying, it look like a beetle. It has wings and under their wings, it's bright orange.

Just now, I went out to eat and I took my mom's car. Pop open the trunk and saw literally 200 of these critters under the hood of the trunk, creeped the shit outa me. I screamed like a little girl. Would some bug spray at target get rid of these things?

FreeOffersNow

15-10-2005 10:18:47

Is it one of these?

http//www.ipm.iastate.edu/ipm/icm/files/images/lady%20beetle2.jpg[" alt=""/img40f4d02a65]

They tend to make their appearance around this time of year...thus they are affectionately known as the Halloween Beetle (it is actually an Asian Lady Beetle). Don't squish them...they splatter an ink-like substance!

theysayjump

15-10-2005 10:21:17

When they are that bad, i doubt anything short of exterminators would do anything.

Sounds a little like Japanese Beetles, but I dont think they are orange under their wings.

You could maybe try some citronella candles, but it might do much when there are that many of them.

J4320

15-10-2005 10:21:29

June bugs?

http//insectphotos.net/orders/coleoptera/images/u4_june_bug.jpg[" alt=""/img8729d14964]

Or are they more skinny than that?

JOSHBOX

15-10-2005 10:28:20

gross

gives me the eebie jeebies just thinking about it.

J4320

15-10-2005 10:30:11

They don't bite.....

At least I don't think.

Yesterday, saw this weird looking beetle on the ground and I tried to pick it up with this magazine I had in my hand. It didn't want on but I finally got it on. It walked to the top of the magazine and it sprayed this clear liquid all over my magazine then it flew off.

It was quite disgusting. I threw the magazine away.

Peinecone

15-10-2005 10:30:30

Where in Minneapolis do you live? I live in St Louis Park, and haven't seen an outbreak of bugs.

bballp6699

15-10-2005 10:32:22

We just have gnats...

What's God's explaination for gnats, Godrock? I've always wondered.

tpham2006

15-10-2005 10:32:46

It's neither one of those 2.

It's black all on the outside, but once they lift up their wings, you can see bright orange.

They are pretty thin and about 1/3 of an inch.

Edit I live near downtown.

Godrockdj

15-10-2005 10:33:47

[quote25c55cfe1c="bballp6699"]We just have gnats...

What's God's explaination for gnats, Godrock? I've always wondered.[/quote25c55cfe1c]

I hate bugs, so you'd have to ask Him yourself wink

J4320

15-10-2005 10:34:46

At least it's not this bad.

http//growabrain.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/locusts.gif[" alt=""/img98ff86468a]

[img="98ff86468a]http//www.allhatnocattle.net/locusts%20egypt.jpg[" alt=""/img98ff86468a]

[img="98ff86468a]http//www.september11news.com/April_19_LocustsNAfghanHillsidesWorst30Yrs.jpg[" alt=""/img98ff86468a]

[img="98ff86468a]http//www.newprophecy.net/A_child_swings_a_broom_stick_at_a_swarm_of_locusts_in_Mexico.jpg[" alt=""/img98ff86468a]

bballp6699

15-10-2005 10:40:17

Haha, is that kid swinging at them with a shovel? "Only 8 trillion left, son. Keep swinging."

tpham2006

15-10-2005 10:40:55

yesterday it was like the 1st picture, not that extreme but about half of that.

I was walking to my house and the damn bugs keep flying into my face, ran inside my house and took a shower.

They're gone now, or at least, not flying around. They're still under my mom's car trunk, probably under every car'r trunk that was parked on the street.

Took 1 of those window brush used for scraping off ice in the winter and brushed them all off, crushed like half of them while the other half flew away. It was kinda fun actually, I was trying to hit the one that was flying with the scraper. Got a few, but they just ended stuck onto the brush, didnt go flying like I hoped (

J4320

15-10-2005 10:42:30

Heh that sounds fun. In that last picture I posted, you're bound to hit at least 5 or 6.

FreeOffersNow

15-10-2005 10:55:31

What about this guy?

http//www.cedarcreek.umn.edu/insects/newslides/020003041001apd.jpg[" alt=""/imgbdd695894b]

tpham2006

15-10-2005 10:59:22

UGHHH NO!!! what the heck is that thing? If that was the thing flying around, I'll move to my sister's house!

FreeOffersNow

15-10-2005 11:01:00

That is a type of stink bug native to MN, which tends to appear in masses of 100 or more. I give up (

dudelovesFinch1035

15-10-2005 13:18:44

Time to call Orkin lol you know what sucks,fuckin cockroaches ( dumb piece of shits

deletrius

15-10-2005 13:23:37

take a picture of the bug! )

dudeextrem2000

15-10-2005 13:53:55

[quoteafe6d77f35="deletrius"]take a picture of the bug! )[/quoteafe6d77f35]

that would solve the mystery

Avenger55

15-10-2005 16:16:56

Not sure what you have, but here in Indiana at this time, we have tons of lady bugs flying around looking for a warm place to hibernate in the winter, and it sucks when they find a way inside. lol

deletrius

15-10-2005 16:22:11

during this time in Vancouver, Canada, we get a lot of silk worms..
I hate them, they're these small white caterpillar-like that hangs from trees on a string...
gets in hair, cars, clothes and stuff...eeck!

Godrockdj

15-10-2005 16:43:47

One of the reasons my husband and I live in PA instead of his native North Dakota is because of "mosquito season"

Allen626

15-10-2005 16:59:50

We get billions of june bugs here. I do not even worry about them anymore. I live in Houston, TX.