Maybe just my family but we have always called them buzz bombs. 🙂
Me too! I thought I'd made the name up, but maybe I heard or read it somewhere? They are attracted to the light and its really good to peer through a window pane and observe them close up. The buzzing sound as they fly is quite loud so when I'm outside at dusk I can hear one coming from a way off, and they do tend to bump into things a lot. Numbers fluctuate over the years, some years I dont see any at all. They were about well before May this year.
I can't recall seeing this bug in the garden before. One of the many species of the Miridae family. I'm waiting for an ID from an insect site. Length about 1cm (without the antennae).
My oldest boy brings me home treasure he finds while walking or at forest school. A week or so ago he brought home a dock leaf that he was particularly proud of. I examined it with due reverence and asked him if it was special because it had eggs on it. Apparently he hadn't seen the eggs but we put it in a bug box anyway to see what would hatch. Today our little yellow eggs had turned into little black moving dots. It's a bit hard to see much when they're this tiny but they seem to be ladybird larvae. I've moved them onto a plant that has an aphid problem and hopefully they'll do their thing and we can watch them grow while my plant gets de-bugged.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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Maybe just my family but we have always called them buzz bombs. 🙂
Failure is always an option.
They are attracted to the light and its really good to peer through a window pane and observe them close up. The buzzing sound as they fly is quite loud so when I'm outside at dusk I can hear one coming from a way off, and they do tend to bump into things a lot. Numbers fluctuate over the years, some years I dont see any at all. They were about well before May this year.