But first enjoy my most recent photo of a western conifer seed bug (Leptoglossus occidentalis), a perennial favourite among Google searchers (right up there with red rabbit pee, here and here).
Photographed on the woodpile.
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We've had these visitors every Winter in our past three houses here in upstate New York. Now that I think of it, those houses sat among 1. red pines, 2. red and white pines, and 3. hemlocks and a few white pines. We find these bugs squeezing into every crack in the Fall, and in the Winter they pop out of the walls and have a slow motion stroll round the house. In our first house, a drafty farmhouse we rented, they accumulated mercilessly in the pink guestroom sink. Our permahouse (#3) is a little less buggy--maybe they're not so fond of hemlocks. I'm so glad to know who they are! Thanks.
We have conifers too, but we are never really invaded by these guys--just an occasional visit. Not that they don't have access--we have plenty of gaps, and are invaded by ash-leafed maple bugs, ladybugs and millipedes at times.
But the traffic I get from people searching for this bug makes me think lots of people get lots of them in the house in the fall.
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