Strange Bugs

[boykinlp]

I was outside earlier spraying weeds with Roundup, and all of a sudden, I saw a BUNCH of red and black bugs crawling around my feet. At first I thought they were Ladybugs, but then I realized they weren't. They were crawling around kinda fast in the mulch of 2 beds. Got any idea what they may be. I don't remember ever seeing them before.
Larry

 

[Rustyt1953]

Boxelder bugs?

 

[Retired W4]

Panama has the weirdest bugs I've ever seen. That's saying a lot, considering the Republic of Vietnam.

 

[sceva]

Maybe one of these

10 Stunning Red and Black Garden Bugs

 

[boykinlp]

I need to get a picture of them, if I can, so we can see what they definitely look like. I was talking with a neighbor and he said that he had an "army" of them crossing his front walk and going up the wall to his front porch! YIKES!

Apparently , whatever they are, they are organized and storming my neighbor's castle!!
Larry

 

[Rustyt1953]

Like Savoir-Faire they are everywhere here.

Boxelder bugs are harmless but they like to invade homes and stain carpets.

 

[boykinlp]

Here's the pictures I just took:
Looks like black head and legs, maybe 2 black wings, but red body. I don't see any that match exactly, but this could be a juvenile bug, I guess.
Larry

 

[Rustyt1953]

A Boxelder bug nymph.

 

[Greyman50]

Panama has the weirdest bugs I've ever seen. That's saying a lot, considering the Republic of Vietnam.

LOL, the 6" rice beetles and 4" roaches were bad enough not to mention the rats that were as big as many cats and dogs.

 

[SMSgt]

Mulch is a home for more bugs than you'd ever imagine. That people pile it all around their house in Florida and then complain about bugs is beyond me.

 

[Retired W4]

A Boxelder bug nymph.

Boxelder nymphomania!

Sorry. I wasn't going to do that, but I could not help myself.

 

[LVSteve]

Mulch is a home for more bugs than you'd ever imagine. That people pile it all around their house in Florida and then complain about bugs is beyond me.

Yep, stupid humans strike again. Here in Nevada they use fist sized red rock all around the property. This creates a bug metropolis, but some of them are the stinging and biting kind. I had all that replaced in my yard with small rock gravel. This cut down on easy access food for the scorpions. This drove the scorpions out into the open at night where I could hunt them with a black light and Raid:Spider and Scorpion spray.

 

[boykinlp]

A Boxelder bug nymph.

PERFECT!
Larry

 

[zeke]

Occasionally we get swarmed by masses of box elder bugs, especially on the sunny sides of buildings. They are easy prey to a hand sprayer filled with warm water dish soap combo. The spray suffocates em.

 

[kamloops67]

Boxelder bugs?

We have millions of those things around here , only first saw them about 25 years ago
Heard them called maple bugs , but I think they could be called siding bugs 'cause that's where they like to live
-and yes red stains on the hinge side of door frame from them getting squished