What a Stink!
I was writing here on my computer this morning when I was interrupted by a tiny visitor. One of the gazillion stink bugs that had invaded our house last fall is traipsing across my mouse-pad and flying into my monitor screen as I’m trying to write.
What an amazing little fellow he is, too! He’s living up to his reputation as being a “true bug” right now, but that’s his prerogative. After all, he’s been a boarder here for 4 months or so and that without food or water to sustain him. No doubt his renewed activity is a sign of Spring being close and he’s suffering from cabin fever and not “just a bit” hungry!
He weighs in at a hefty gram or so and yet he is able to unfold his neatly creased tuxedo into a pair of powerful wings and fly back out into the wilderness again pretty soon. Then “he”, or “she” as the case may be will go about the task of finding a mate and eggs will be laid so new little baby bugs will get their starts.
But, how do they manage to live inside my house so long without sustenance? This fellow doesn’t look any trimmer and seems to fly well enough to totally amaze me. It would be easy enough to call it miraculous, without a doubt this is truly one awesome feat of engineering! Nuf said!
Wayne Hollyoak