As summer wanes, western conifer seed bugs begin to appear in numbers. They are seeking a warm place to overwinter and somewhere around your house or my house would suit them nicely, thank you.
I have seen a half dozen of
these bugs outside my house in the last couple days.
Western conifer
seed bugs are often mistakenly identified as
either stink bugs or boxelder bugs. As a
point of fact, they do look similar to boxelder bugs. And when feeling threatened they will emit a
somewhat sharp an unpleasant odor, but they are not a true stink bug.
I don’t mean to be disparaging,
but these are some pretty incompetent bugs.
Western conifer seed bugs are notoriously bad navigators while in
flight. They are loud fliers as well. One of the first bugs I saw this year,
crashed into my shoulder. Over the
years, more than a few of them have zizzed directly into my face and
tumbled to the ground from there.
The good news is western conifer seed bugs are not harmful to humans or animals. They are merely annoying. Western conifer seed bugs feed on the male flowers and young cones western pines and Douglas fir.
Western Conifer Seed Bug on My
Hot Tub Cover
—Mitchell
Hegman
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