Just made this meme to express my frustration at Boxelder bugs. No matter how many times I carry them out they find a way back in my house in Spring and Fall.
Note because I guess some folks need it: I don’t kill them, I pick them up and put them back outside!
That brings me back to my childhood. We had lots of these in the backyard when I was a kid, but I haven’t seen one for decades now.
Same, but school playground. Do they turn into the jumpy/flying guys of the same color? I suppose I can look that up since I now know the name of them thanks to this post… lol.
Looks like no, the jumpy bois at least aren’t in the pics when you search boxelder bugs. So still I have that mystery! They literally look like the boxelder’s next evolution, they get sleek and shaped like a B-2 Stealth Bomber, the colorway/shader is “boxelder” apparently, and they can jump like a son of a bitch, and fly short distances kind of like a chicken.
Could it be a kissing bug? I’d never heard of them before, but they were mentioned in this thread and do look a lot like boxelders!
Naw, definitely not. They’re almost leaf bug shaped but flatter, less long than a boxelder ('bout leaf bug length), black, and a couple red stripes.
Kissing bugs like that one above are longer like the boxelders and still the wrong non-B-2-Bomber shape, too many red stripes in the wrong pattern, and I’m still unclear on their propensity to jump into a short flight like a chicken with pneumatic legs. Still the exact right colors though!