This morning Tetsu went to work a little irritated. Not really irritated at me, but irritated because he was late and in the long run I guess irritated because I didn't check his clothes. I should have checked his clothes for THIS. (picture from the Internet)Do you know what this is? I never saw one when I lived in the States and I don't think I ever saw one until I lived next to the forest. This is a stinkbug and he and his fellow stinkbugs live up to their name! We all know when a stinkbug has gotten into the house and the cats will bat at one a couple times, wrinkle their noses and bound off in the opposite direction.
I have put on a shirt, 30 minutes later or so smelled the distinctive stinkbug smell, and suddenly feel something crawling up my arm. And other people will notice the smell too (but the bugs are so common everyone thinks one has gotten in the house) and I will innocently pretend that it is not me who is stinking.
Right now we are in the stinkbug season. They must live in the forest and come up to our veranda and sun themselves on my laundry. This morning Tetsu put on his shirt (remember I dry my laundry outside) and a few seconds later he had taken everything off and was doing an Indian dance and shaking his clothes out. About 7 stinkbugs plopped to the floor and I scurried around gathering them up and putting them back outside. They will probably make their way back to my laundry today.
So Tetsu was late for work and irritated. At the stinkbugs. Not at me. I "sthink".
13 comments:
Stinkbugs have come to the states, too! We live in New Jersey and have the all over. And as the weather gets cooler, they come inside! yuck!
They're here, too. For the past three years; before that, I'd never heard of them. Sheesh.
Oh how funny!
YIKES!!!!!!!!!! I'd be dancing too.....*shudder*
If we have them here I haven't met one yet. I had to laugh at the thought of Tetsu's dance and the stinkbugs falling out. NOT the way you want to start the morning!
I'd be shaking everything all the time...YUK
We have these stinkbugs here, in our home too :o(, so I understand how you feel about them...My husband always "smell them out" even if there is only one bug nearby... They are really stinky!
We have them here on Cape Cod too! I was at work adding up numbers and one came out of my calculator! It was the first time I ever saw one. Scared the life out of me.
I knew there was a reason I didn't want to hang out the laundry (besides laziness)! LOL I guess we'll stick with the dryer. Please tell me stickbugs don't live in the southeast! I don't want another bug to fight - I already have crickets and spiders(OK, I know spiders arent a bug exactly, but still...) trying to get into the house now that the temperature is dropping.
This is really interesting. We have them in Maryland; they come inside in the fall - and as far as my family can tell, they have no smell at all. I usually detect anything "off", so I was confused until I heard that they only smell when you kill them, which I don't, I just relocate them. But the above comments lead me to think that they stink even when alive. Is that true?
Seven!?! I would be dancing and stripping too. I've seen one, but luckily not at my house. But whenever I go outside, I do feel like things are crawling on me. One time I had been inside for about 2 hours before I felt something jump out of my hair. Eww.
After all that bother you just caught them and let them go outside??
They'll no doubt be back for another attack. LOL Should've stomped 'em....well away from the house.
We have stinkbugs here in Oz. They invade the lemon tree, so I spray white oil on it, to make them die, & leave it alone.
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