The other night, as I was getting ready for bed, Doug called me to the kitchen. He had been outside and out of the corner of his eye, he thought he saw a moth fly in to our house. He pointed to the curtain. "But, that's no moth!" he said.
No. Definitely not a moth. A beetle. The size of my head. Sort of.
He told me to try to find out what kind of beetle it was. I hopped on the computer. In the meantime, he tried to get the beetle out. It hissed at him. Did you think you misread that? No, you didn't. IT HISSED AT HIM! Twice.
So, I googled hissing beetle. Guess what came up. A whole lot of pictures of that very beetle. It is actually a ten-lined June beetle. It took a little work, but he got it out. Now, our home is, to our knowledge, hissing beetle free.
This ends today's entomology lesson.
6 comments:
Oh, my! ...reminds me a little of Madagascar hissing cockroaches... only cuter.
What did it say? What was its name? What was a June bug doing in July? I think you left out some details... but maybe they're too frightening to tell.
Or....you could have just called me with your bug name question, since we have an insect book. We are nerdy that way.
I'm glad it was a beetle and not a spider, those gusy are not my friend.
Since we're telling bug stories... I caught a wasp in my room yesterday. It was sitting and watching out the window and communicating with a wasp on the outside. Seriously. Bugs/insects are so weird.
We had one of those in our house a few days ago!
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