It bugs me...

It bugs me... has taken an even more personal tone this week.

Our friend the Boxelder Bug has made a resurgent in the house this year in force. This bug is not that big a deal as it is a nuisance bug and does no damage to the house, does not eat anything, and does not bite. Even more ironic is that it can be simply picked up (even though it has wings) and be disposed of.

These bugs eat and reproduce in the summer outdoors on most trees. In the late fall they seek a warm spot to hibernate the winter months. Typically they awake in the early spring and try to make their way to the outdoors so that is the typical time they are seen.

What bugs me this time is that I didn't get a chance to spray the outside of the house this year as well as I have in the past year and I should have made sure that we didn't have any area under the siding that these guys could sneak into the house. I'm sure that is a major reason why we have had a larger then normal amount of these guys out and about.

On a good note, with us killing off so many of them in the winter month, I hope that this spring there will be far fewer of them to kill.