Posted by Ritch on February 15, 2002, at 0:42:45
In reply to Box Elder Bugs » Ritch, posted by IsoM on February 14, 2002, at 16:36:24
> E-yuck! Those stupid bugs! How I hated them. When I lived on the Prairies, they were so thick. In fall, they'd fill old houses, crawling through any tiny crack - dropping into your soup, finding them in bed, flying through the air & getting in your hair. No bird, or anything else in its right mind, would eat those things (except my middle son when he was a baby - I had to scoop them from his mouth).
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> Here, I thought I was going to keep some of my annuals growing through the winter but we finally got a few cold nights & they got killed. :-(
> Right now, I have the heat turned off & some windows open, it's so warm in the house from the sun & spring coming.
I had to spray them down with Diazinon a couple of years ago, but they are coming back big time. Every time there is an El Nino they get really bad. I never have trouble with them getting in the house, but that might change this year, judging by the two large masses of them I saw. I am trying to figure out what the heck they are EATING.IF it would get cold enough it would knock out a lot of them (about -10F at nite for about two-three weeks)!
Mitch
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