EHKOS said:
MarsAtlas said:
Oh, just you wait. Here on the east coast of the US, we're going to get those cicadas they come out once every 17 years or so. They're going to chirp like crazy for five weeks, fucking like jackrabbits on speed, and then they'll all die off and litter the landscape. Every footstep *crunch* will *crunch* be *crunch* over *crunch* them.
I like Cicadas. Just play Animal Crossing and you'll love them.
OT: I have only seen one stink bug in my life, it was tealish, emeraldish, and it stunk.
Those are the ones we have down here (Florida), and they're a brilliant shade of green, not that drab brown that the OP deals with. They're pretty harmless as long as you don't bother them, although one /did/ ruin an entire batch of grapes that I had picked from some vines in my Grandaddy's backyard, which was made all the more sad by the fact that he had just died and the house was about to be sold. I learned that day to always check for stinkbugs /before/ they wound up in the bucket with the fruit, because the spray tastes as nasty as it smells, and it doesn't wash off of fruit.
I don't really mind them, though. They're kind of like cockroaches (which make the same smell when you bother them, especially the native palmetto bugs), except they only get into the house if you leave a door open and one accidentally flies in. They don't do it on purpose and breed.
Edit: Figured I'd show you a palmetto bug.
I really do hate these things. They don't generally get into houses, but they have a way of making themselves at home in sheds, garages, and other relatively sheltered areas that aren't fully isolated from the outdoors, and then stinking said places up. They're kind of the worst parts of a cockroach and a stinkbug combined. The smell, oddly enough, smells pretty much how artificial cherry flavoring tastes. So there's a reason I hate that stuff, and it's these bugs.
