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!
Hot take: These guys never bothered me. I know some people are strongly bothered and annoyed by Boxelder bugs but they don’t annoy me.
They give you a nasty disease that makes your heart fall apart. I hope you like being dead dumbass, your love of gross bugs will be the death of you!
I have no idea where you got this idea but it’s wrong.
https://npic.orst.edu/pest/boxelder.html
Are you perhaps thinking of kissing bugs???
They are the same bug!
No they’re not lol
https://extension.umd.edu/resource/kissing-bugs/
The boxelder bug (Boisea trivittata) is often mistaken for a kissing bug due to its red and black coloration. However, while the kissing bug has six red-orange stripes along the side of its abdomen, the boxelder bug has red along the edges of the front wings.
That seems like horse shit
Speaking of horses, did you know that house flies and horse flies can look almost identical, but are different species?
The possum is not the same species as the opossum. A rabbit and a hare are different species. A buzzard and vulture are different species.
It’s all about DNA. If two bugs (or any organism) can mate and produce viable, fertile offspring - that’s a species. If they can’t, then they are different species.
You’re a different species dumbass!
Same here. I think they’re kinda cute tbh. They are just a very mild inconvenience in the house just because I gotta go find a piece of paper for it to crawl on and put it outside, lol.
They’re only cute until they give you that nasty heart disease that makes your heart fall apart slowly…
