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n2ize
12-29-2011, 08:02 PM
A garden insect just flew in my window and is not sitting on my computer screen. IN DECEMBER !!! It's 32 degrees outside and it was in the low 20;s last night. This just makes me shake my head and go...HUH ???
N8YX
12-29-2011, 08:04 PM
Quit setting antifreeze out for things to drink.
NA4BH
12-29-2011, 08:06 PM
Pour him a drink, he's cold.
n2ize
12-29-2011, 08:08 PM
Well, he's now sitting under the light warming himself up.
kf0rt
12-29-2011, 08:11 PM
HiRez or it didn't happen. :lol:
KG4CGC
12-29-2011, 10:02 PM
He was hiding behind the couch the whole time. A day of warm temps brings them out in droves here, even in Winter. Tiny tree frogs called Spring Peepers, will start chirping (croaking) if the temps get into the 50s even in January and February.
n2ize
12-29-2011, 10:25 PM
Could be... I put him (or her) in our "greenhouse room" where we keep plants. It's warm in there, plenty of nice plants to hide in. He should keep well in there until spring.
NQ6U
12-30-2011, 12:47 AM
Probably not an insect at all. More likely it's a micro-drone sent by the NSA to spy on you. Hide all the porn immediately.
K7SGJ
12-30-2011, 03:13 AM
Could be... I put him (or her) in our "greenhouse room" where we keep plants. It's warm in there, plenty of nice plants to hide in. He should keep well in there until spring.


Spring hell. He'll be stoned by morning.
PA5COR
12-30-2011, 04:36 AM
Flowers blooming trees pollinating the surrounding, yes we have it here too with 12 C, and the next 10 days no change to see.
Hot dry spring, wet summer, hot dry autum, and warm stormy winter, weird...
KG4CGC
12-30-2011, 04:43 AM
I hope you identified it before placing it near your house plants.
N8YX
12-30-2011, 06:05 AM
I hope you identified it before placing it near your house plants.

"No good deed goes unpunished", right?
W3WN
12-30-2011, 03:00 PM
Wasn't a stink bug, was it? We have a mini-invasion of them in the area, third year in a row. They sneak into the house when it starts getting cold out, and they suckers keep popping up.

You can't kill them... well, you can, but when you crush them, they stink. Kind of a lemon scent, but in a bad way; not exactly sour, but definitely with a tinge of sewage. Yuch.
ki4itv
12-30-2011, 03:05 PM
The damn birds were singing when left the qth at noon-thirty.
kinda struck me as wrong.
K7SGJ
12-30-2011, 03:49 PM
The damn birds were singing when left the qth at noon-thirty.
kinda struck me as wrong.

Probably ate Johns bug and were happy as hell about it.
W1GUH
12-30-2011, 07:02 PM
"No good deed goes unpunished", right?

A pregnant female? Wind up with thousands?
n2ize
12-30-2011, 07:38 PM
Wasn't a stink bug, was it? We have a mini-invasion of them in the area, third year in a row. They sneak into the house when it starts getting cold out, and they suckers keep popping up.

You can't kill them... well, you can, but when you crush them, they stink. Kind of a lemon scent, but in a bad way; not exactly sour, but definitely with a tinge of sewage. Yuch.

I don;t think it was a stink bug but I have heard about them. As usual they were not native to this area but were accidentally introduced from Asia.
N8YX
12-30-2011, 07:51 PM
I don;t think it was a stink bug but I have heard about them. As usual they were not native to this area but were accidentally introduced from Asia.

Eh...feed 'em to the giant snakehead which is swimming in your terlet tank.
n2ize
12-31-2011, 12:36 PM
Eh...feed 'em to the giant snakehead which is swimming in your terlet tank.

Occaisionally I have had bugs (mosquitos, small beetles, etc.) that have accidentally flown into the fish tank. To them fish that is food and they eat them.
KG4CGC
12-31-2011, 12:55 PM
"No good deed goes unpunished", right?
Tell me about it.